Texas Speech Communication Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237112327
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3617397417
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,644
- Expenses
- $72,437
- Assets
- $84,637
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RORY MCKENZIE (PRESIDENT)
- MARTIN RANDY COX (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JEREMY HUTCHINS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- HEATHER SOLTERO (VICE PRESIDENT - ELECT)
People named in this filing
- JANA RIGGINS (ARCHIVIST)
- STEF CAMBRA (COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR)
- WADE HESCHT (COMPTROLLER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Training for speech educators
What it reported doing in 2024
Organization reports to the state board of education and the Texas higher education coordinating board, keeping them informed of the current state of speech education in Texas. The organization has over 500 members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.