Reverb Network
Legal name: Reverb Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473684072
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Lexington, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8593125334
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,523
- Expenses
- $143,081
- Assets
- $94,859
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Luke Kuepfer (President)
- Shannon Lehman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Luke Kuepfer (President)
- Shannon Lehman (Vice President)
- Harold Carpenter (Board member)
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
Reverb Network exists to provide leadership training, consulting and coaching to faith-based and non-profit organizations as well as to business groups and other associations for the purpose of creating a serving leadership culture in all spheres of society. Reverb Network's mission is to grow serving leaders to impact the world. We provide leadership training, consulting and coaching to faith-based and non-profit organizations as well as to business groups and other associations for the purpose of creating a serving leadership culture in all spheres of society. After training over 3,000 leaders in Uganda during a two-year period using a large event...
What it reported doing in 2025
Missions and Ministry support: During 2025, we provide $4800 in educational scholarships for disadvantaged children in Liberia, $5548 to cover the expenses for a mission trip to Austria, and $24,250 to help a ministry in Nepal build a new church building.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $135K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.