KNOM Radio Mission Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270518406
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9078681200
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,779,810
- Expenses
- $1,944,785
- Assets
- $2,738,807
- Liabilities
- $196,220
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Fimon (President)
- Ukallaysaaq T Okleasik (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Fimon (President)
- Ukallaysaaq T Okleasik (Vice-President)
- Carol Piscoya (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
KNOM Radio Mission, Inc. exists to engage with listeners in Western Alaska to embrace the regions culture, empower spiritual growth, and expand opportunity for encountering Christ.
What it reported doing in 2024
KNOMs mission is to engage listeners, empower spiritual growth, and expand opportunity for encountering Christ. The work is steeped in mission values: to be a friend and companion who provides respectful service based on Catholic ideals. KNOMs 20,000 listeners live across 100,000 square miles of remote Alaska. Most live in villages from the Bering Sea Coast and eastward toward the Alaskan interior. Radio is a source of faith, news and information. AM/FM Radios analog signal, remains integral to the regions communications, as digital (i.e. web-based) means are often less reliable, especially during an emergency. KNOMs website: www.knom.org hosts many programs, productions, news, and features. This site is free from advertising thanks to the generosity of many private benefactors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $278K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.