Valley Broadcast Legends
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933287263
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9164885274
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,735
- Expenses
- $8,998
- Assets
- $101,993
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Willam George (President)
- Bud Kress (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Willam George (President)
- Bud Kress (Vice President)
- Allen Chamberlin (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educate future Broadcasters and preserve local Broadcast history
What it reported doing in 2025
Awarded a $1,000 grant to Ariel Airada a film major at California State University, Sacramento Record, edit, transcribe and post historic interviews with people who played a role in broadcast history in the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto broadcast market as part of the Sacramento History Center's Oral History project. $500
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.4%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -140.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.34; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -187.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.4% of revenue deployed · 16.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.