Parable Media Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853031826
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9102625515
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $169,350
- Expenses
- $170,865
- Assets
- $36,324
- Liabilities
- $3,990
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN BOGGS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JONATHAN BOGGS (PRESIDENT)
- JAYNE DAVIS (DIRECTOR)
- MICHAEL QUEEN (DIRECTOR)
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
Parable media is a non-profit digital media ministry providing services for churches, christian non-profits, and individuals in ministry. The services we offer include custom video, website design, logo and graphic design, and photography.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, and 53% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 46%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 46% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.