St Gabriel Communications
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201935653
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152231150
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,718,698
- Expenses
- $1,980,550
- Assets
- $5,736,385
- Liabilities
- $3,097,932
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Deacon Mark Campbell (Executive Director)
- Rick Ball (President)
- Mark Parrish (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary Marasco (Director of Development): $112,746 total reported compensation
- Matt Willkom (Director of Programming and Expansion): $112,002 total reported compensation
- Deacon Mark Campbell (Executive Director): $74,077 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Iowa Catholic Radio is dedicated to providing the best in Catholic teaching, news, and inspiration. From World Youth Day to the Iowa State Fair, from Dowling Catholic to your local parish. Our mission is to save souls and to proclaim the Gospel! Iowa Catholic Radio is the only Catholic radio broadcaster for the community of central Iowa. We serve as the radio voice for the parishes and schools of the Diocese of Des Moines, including Bishop Joensen, Dowling Catholic High School, Knights of Columbus, and Catholic Charities, offering more than half a million Christians the opportunity to hear the Word of God.
What it reported doing in 2024
Iowa Catholic Radio is dedicated to providing the best in Catholic teaching, news, and inspiration. From World Youth Day to the Iowa State Fair, from Dowling Catholic to your local parish. Our mission is to save souls and to proclaim the Gospel! Iowa Catholic Radio is the only Catholic radio broadcaster for the community of central Iowa. We serve as the radio voice for the parishes and schools of the Diocese of Des Moines, including Bishop Joensen, Dowling Catholic High School, Knights of Columbus, and Catholic Charities, offering more than half a million Christians the opportunity to hear the Word of God. In 2012, the organization acquired two FM stations that significantly extend the listening area of the radio stations. The organization is now able to broadcast to over a half million potential listeners in Central Iowa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.1%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 59.2%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.9; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.1% of revenue deployed · 59.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 21 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.6M reported
- Consistency: 42 of 44 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.