Because I Believe Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270703766
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Alabaster, AL, USA
- Phone
- 5203000393
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,547
- Expenses
- $53,374
- Assets
- $7,656
- Liabilities
- $63,726
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER DANIELSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER DANIELSON (PRESIDENT)
- EMILEE DANIELSON (VICE PRESIDE)
- TIM LAMBRIX (BOARD CHAIR)
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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teach and promote a biblical worldview through internet radio
What it reported doing in 2016
Teach and promote a biblical worldview: radio programming, comedy shows, marriage conferences, film projects, and speaking engagements. During 2016, approximately 15,000 listeners were tracked.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.9%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 8.32; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -97.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -77.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -47.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.