The Station of the Cross
Legal name: Holy Family Communications
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161511190
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Williamsville, NY, United States
- Phone
- 1.877.888.6279
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,249,167
- Expenses
- $2,024,481
- Assets
- $4,285,699
- Liabilities
- $1,555,472
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES N WRIGHT (CEO AND PRESIDENT)
- JOANNE WRIGHT (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES HAVENS (COO/INTEGRATOR): $100,542 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network is an apostolate dedicated to proclaiming the fullness of Truth with clarity and charity.
What it reported doing in 2025
1.) new employees - frank miller and sarah cain begin in the production team (march)2.) new sponsorship begins - sacred heart tours promotes on icr and wlof (april)3.) new sponsorship begins - little feather press promotes across the entire network (may)4.) new show begins - through the fire begins across the entire network of the station of the cross catholic media network (june)5.) technical improvement - wneb spectrum modem is switched out (july)6.) live recordings - used the outlets available to the station of the cross catholic media network to promote internationally-renowned radio host dr. Ray guarendi in coming to buffalo and to help gather a live studio audience for his recordings. Staff assisted on the ground the days of the event (august)7.) ask a priest - this live show moved from 6 p.m. Weekdays to 12 p.m. Weekdays (september)8.) new employee - daniel hammerschmidt begins in the production team (september) 9.) recording with public - ann suchyna recorded spots for a local catholic school (october)10.) new employee - lindsay adornetto started at the station to help keep track of invoicing of broadcasted spots (october)11.) podcast transition - transitioned from libsyn to podbean for our podcasts (december)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 65.3% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.