Apostolate Light of Jesus Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994575960
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Manhattan, KS, USA
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,425
- Expenses
- $24,187
- Assets
- $7,385
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Richard Bryant (president)
People named in this filing
- Richard Bryant (president)
- Mike Crubel (Secretary)
- Chris Stephens (treasure)
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
To own and operate a low power Catholic radio station to present and provide a lay Catholic educational Apostolate. This Apostolate will communicate Christian truth as expressed in Sacred Scripture Sacred Tradition and by Magistrium of the Catholic Church.
What it reported doing in 2025
Broadcast educational Catholic truths 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. Reaching out to the local community and the world. To establish underwriter for programs being broadcast from EWTN network.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
REVIEW - 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: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.9%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 6
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -94.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 23; 23rd 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.9% of revenue deployed · 5.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.