Vernon Communications Cooperative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 390838123
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Westby, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6086343136
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,955,181
- Expenses
- $19,424,932
- Assets
- $65,007,201
- Liabilities
- $32,761,513
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARIN MAYER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- GARIN MAYER (CEO): $349,594 total reported compensation
- SCOTT HAAKENSON (CONTROLLER): $173,755 total reported compensation
- TODD TUNKS (OUTSIDE PLANT MANAGER): $171,945 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To our members: consistent with our proud tradition, vernon communications coop's mission is to provide its members with the latest technology available, at an affordable cost, (continued on schedule o)
What it reported doing in 2024
Telephone and related telecommunications services to 4,626 access lines.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.35; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $350K · 11 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $7.2M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.