Impact Network

Legal name: Impact Network Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
273346714
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
3132205915
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religious Television
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,552,518
Expenses
$12,316,946
Assets
$12,965,764
Liabilities
$20,654,604

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Bishop Wayne T Jackson (President/Chief Executive Officer)
  • Dr Beverly Y Jackson (Executive Vice President)
  • Royal Jackson (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Bishop Wayne T Jackson (President/Chief Executive Officer): $434,200 total reported compensation
  • Tijuana Hudson (Chief Financial Officer): $200,000 total reported compensation
  • Lewis Gibbs (Manager): $152,400 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Impact Network, Inc. is the place for growth, hope, and change—designed to inspire, inform, and uplift your spirit, soul, and body. Impact is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your support helps expand our ability to deliver positive, life-changing content through television, streaming, and digital platforms in today’s modern world. Donations help sustain daily operations, fund the production of inspirational programming, and maintain the infrastructure that allows Impact to reach millions across devices and platforms. They also power community-driven and international initiatives that extend our mission beyond the screen. All donations are tax-deductible.

What it reported doing in 2024

Impact Network, Inc. fulfilled its charitable objectives through providing quality programming and program services. These program services expenses include general network operational expenses, fiber access expenses, production expenses, and broadcasting expenses. Impact Network, Inc. ensured its charitable objectives by achieving its program services requirements through maintaining contract services and expenses within acceptable ratio of the organizations net income. Professional services along with production network operations and other contract services all fulfilled the program objectives of the organization. Impact Network, Inc. also ensured its charitable objectives by identifying sales opportunties, new product and service offerings, and the markets in which those opportunities can be explored and capitalized. To achieve this program objective, members of the executive and management teams were required to travel to conferences, conventions, and meetings promoting the network opportunties to prospective subscribers and business organizations. Impact Network, Inc. has dedicated it programming to providing spiritual, physical, financial, educational, social, personal, emotional, and relationally relevant programming by ensuring that the network ministers to the wholistic needs of the total man through various media opportunities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most filed governance safeguards are in place. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 59
  • Accountability: 65
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 54.5%; rating input score 55; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -63.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.59; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $434K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
  • Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.