Living Word Broadcast Npf
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383678197
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Naperville, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6304470371
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,699
- Expenses
- $84,281
- Assets
- $3,652
- Liabilities
- $6,598
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Wilson (President)
People named in this filing
- Robert Wilson (President)
- Enrique Chavez (Secretary and VP Finance)
- Samuel Wilson (SVP Technology and Development)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian Education, Publications, Distribution of Christian materials includes KJV Bibles in English, Arabic and, French. Broadcast/Streaming of Christian Educational and Spiritual materials in multiple languages, and, missionary trips to further the End Time Gospel of Jesus Christ.
What it reported doing in 2025
Part III (29) -Design, development and maintenance of website (livingwordbroadcast.org), LWB Mobile Application (LWB Mobile) Application in 7 languages (Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Russian and Slovak) and Chinese King James (CKJV) Bible Application (CKJV Bible). Accounts for 20% of resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.81; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.