City on a Hill Productions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 481301649
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 4055147771
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Film, Video
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,836,971
- Expenses
- $3,274,548
- Assets
- $1,430,455
- Liabilities
- $47,292
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMESON RUNNELS (CEO)
- ANDREW HUDSON (CO-CEO)
- RACHEL SHAVER (CO-CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSEPH HYDRICK (COO): $147,041 total reported compensation
- CURTIS ZACKERY (DIR OF CONTE): $130,623 total reported compensation
- JAMESON RUNNELS (CEO): $129,169 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
City on a hill productions aims to empower the global church by providing transformative, biblically grounded resources through a trusted digital platform that deepens faith and fosters community in jesus.
What it reported doing in 2024
Launched a streaming platform called qava.tv to host and stream city on a hill productions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.2%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 44.8%; rating input score 45
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.2% of revenue deployed · 44.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.