Charlotte Advent Media Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472619016
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8036270740
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,415
- Expenses
- $147,402
- Assets
- $726,360
- Liabilities
- $2,959
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bryan Aalborg (President/Chairman)
- Eleanor Green (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bryan Aalborg (President/Chairman)
- Eleanor Green (Vice President)
- Anita MacNeil (Treasurer)
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
Form 990 - Organization's Mission - CAMC's mission is "With Grace for You bringing healing and hope in Jesus for life today, tomorrow, and eternity." CAMC operates radio station WGFY Charlotte 1480 AM 24 hours per day. Programming subject matter includes family development, child rearing and education, health information, and religion. Programming is directed to listeners of all backgrounds and ages to inform, stimulate, and educate the audience locally and on a wider basis via the Internet. CAMC operates to provide religious instruction and moral teaching; to teach parents and children principles for strengthening the home; to help members of the community discover solutions to the personal, social, relational, and health problems typical of contemporary times; to provide and promote discussion of all areas of family, social, religious, and personal life issues; and to teach ideals of citizenship, integrity, responsibility, moral rectitude, and spiritual maturity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing programming that is directed to listeners of all backgrounds and ages which informs, entertains, stimulates, and educates the audience. Through religious instruction and moral teaching, people are brought into a closer relationship with our Savior, Jesus Christ. Our programming promotes discussion and positive changes in areas of family, social, religious, and personal life issues.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $61.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.93; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.5% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.