Olympic Media
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463721348
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Port Townsend, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603798383
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,430
- Expenses
- $83,695
- Assets
- $137,942
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joseph Mann (Vice-President of Operations)
People named in this filing
- Glenn Gately (Chairman of the Board)
- Joseph Mann (Vice-President of Operations)
- William M Rogers (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Non-commercial Educational Broadcasting.
What it reported doing in 2025
Line 28 - Olympic Media broadcast ops re-achieved its milestone 100% application of assets, received donations and available resources in pursuit of its core goal to generate a 24/7 broadcast programming product utilized by multiple broadcast facilities. This included the continued expansion of individual programming elements (some specifically targeting Covid-19 coverage, preparation, & response and Race-relations in the context of significant societal unrest), news-gathering systems capacity-upgrades and hardening in preparation for the next of major fault event/activity along the Cascadia Subduction Fault Zone located along the Pacific Northwest Coastal boundary. 500,000+ potential persons benefited.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 10.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.