Wallingford Public Access Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061378847
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Wallingford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2032949722
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Television
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $323,459
- Expenses
- $132,641
- Assets
- $693,434
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Herb Jackson (President)
- Cassandra Allen (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Curt Huizenga (Board Member)
- Jeff Kohan (Board Member)
- Ben Negron (Board Member)
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
To provide a brave, safe, creative space for a diversity of expression within our community of Wallingford, CT, and beyond, with media tools and space for media creation and distribution, inclusive of story performance, advocacy, concurrent with a public art gallery integrated throughout the building on related themes. Our studioW facility offers professional-grade equipment and production space, enabling anyone to develop high-quality digital content for community access television and their preferred distribution platforms. We are the home of the Nelson Carty Ford Memorial Art Gallery serrated to encourage social action and TeenTigerTV Youth Training and Empowerment program.Bylaws: to empower the people of Wallingford and beyond to uplift the community through story, conversation, and content creation by operating a community-centric digital media center and public art gallery. Goal: To operate a community-based media center, inclusive of a television studio...
What it reported doing in 2025
S41 Community Development and Fiscal Sustainability Initiative. In response to declining cable franchise revenue the organization executed a Strategic Plan to ensure long term mission sustainability. A key achievement included securing Program Related Investments through Capital for Change comprised of low interest operational loans and a long term no interest mortgage loan. These fiscal strategies developed with stakeholder input directly enable the organization to sustain its service to underserved populations. This commitment is physically manifested in our permanent art collection and gallery which utilizes advocacy through art to highlight the lived experiences of the unhoused and socially challenged members of our community bridging fiscal management with social justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.9%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.23; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.9% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.