NRB Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593793913
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6158662702
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,157,018
- Expenses
- $2,226,232
- Assets
- $1,212,831
- Liabilities
- $492,914
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Troy A Miller (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Troy A Miller (President & CEO): $451,286 total reported compensation
- Arline Bell (General Manager): $122,789 total reported compensation
- Natalie Bonczek (NRB CFO): $87,776 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NRB Network was founded with a vision of impacting the culture through Christian television. NRBTV equips you to live differently with programming that inspires deep thinking and provides the practical tools you need to put your faith into practice. A thoughtful and thought-provoking television option, our channel helps you learn, know, apply, share and live God's truth. In addition to NRBTV-produced content, we air independently-produced programs from organizations with a passion for God's Word and a commitment to quality broadcasting. Our lineup features diverse program genres and well-respected Christian pastors, apologists, and teachers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Programming cost represents the continued development of on-air identification graphics, as well the cost associated with making programs ready for broadcast.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.6%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 19th 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: Fail
- 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: -3.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.6% of revenue deployed · 63.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $451K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 45 of 45 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.