Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$5,955,358

Total expenses

$5,782,067

Contributions and grants received

$0

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$5,900,798

Investment income

$54,560

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$3,955,551

Total liabilities, end of year

$681,635

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,273,916

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$0

Management and general expenses

$0

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

— not reported

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• ADVOCACY: 2023 WAS A YEAR OF TRANSITION FOR TELECOM POLICY IN WASHINGTON, AND FOR ACA CONNECTS. IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, THE "2-2" FCC ADOPTED RULES ON A CONSENSUS BASIS TO IMPLEMENT MAJOR TELECOM INITIATIVES ADOPTED BY CONGRESS IN THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL, IN PARTICULAR THE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM (ACP) AND BROADBAND LABELS. ACA CONNECTS' ADVOCACY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE PROGRAMS HELPED USHER IN RULES THAT ENCOURAGED PARTICIPATION FROM OUR MEMBERS AND AVOIDED SADDLING THEM WITH EXTRANEOUS BURDENS. FOR INSTANCE, ACA CONNECTS WAS SUCCESSFUL IN ENSURING THAT A DATA COLLECTION RELATED TO ACP, WHICH WAS INITIATED IN MID-2023, DID NOT REQUIRE OVERLY GRANULAR REPORTING OR DISCLOSURES OF CONFIDENTIAL COMPANY DATA. OUR ADVOCACY ALSO HELPED REDUCE BURDENS AND ESTABLISH A LONGER TIMELINE FOR SMALL COMPANIES TO CREATE AND DISPLAY BROADBAND LABELS, WHICH OUR MEMBERS BEGAN WORKING TOWARDS IN 2023. WE WERE ALSO SUCCESSFUL IN 2023 IN RESISTING THE ADOPTION OF ONEROUS RULES IN AREAS, SUCH AS PUBLIC SAFETY, WHERE BIPARTISAN CONSENSUS IS OFTEN ACHIEVABLE. EDUCATION: DURING 2023, WE ALSO CONTINUED TO PROVIDE RESOURCES AND EDUCATION TO MEMBERS TO HELP THEM ASSESS OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 42 BILLION BEAD BROADBAND FUNDING PROGRAM, AS WELL AS TO PROTECT THEIR SERVICE TERRITORIES FROM GOVERNMENT-FUNDED OVERBUILDING. THE APPOINTMENT OF A FIFTH COMMISSIONER TO THE FCC IN THE FALL OF 2023 GAVE DEMOCRATS THE MAJORITY THEY NEEDED TO PURSUE PARTISAN INITIATIVES, INCLUDING THE REINSTATEMENT OF UTILITY-STYLE TITLE II REGULATION OF BROADBAND SERVICE. ACA CONNECTS HAD BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS SHIFT EARLIER IN THE YEAR, AND ITS ADVOCACY IN THE FINAL MONTHS HELP BUILD A RECORD AND LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR LEGAL CHALLENGES THAT WOULD COME IN 2024.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

6 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202433179349304668

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