Town Square Television
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363611937
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Inver Grove Heights, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6513526100
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $679,579
- Expenses
- $667,880
- Assets
- $1,771,066
- Liabilities
- $63,008
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- BETH BAUMANN (EXECUTIVE DI)
- JODIE MILLER (EXEC DIR TIL)
- ANDREW HEIN (CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission: connecting all residents of northern dakota county with our community by producing local video content that is easily accessible on a variety of platforms and empowering people to share their own stories using video. Vision: engaging and connecting all through local community television strategies for achieving the mission: o purchasing, maintaining, and operating a communications facility and equipment. O providing the public with access to the communications facility and equipment, and support such as training, volunteer coordination, and assistance in using technologies to communicate. O using the communications facility and equipment to provide communications services to the public, including information and entertainment. O creating public awareness and community support for town square television as an essential community resource. O planning and preparing for change in order to remain viable in the future.
What it reported doing in 2025
All other programs including public awareness and community support, planning and preparing for change
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.65; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $572K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.