St. Gabriel Catholic Radio
Legal name: St Gabriel Radio Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300220140
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 614-459-4820
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $897,630
- Expenses
- $924,857
- Assets
- $3,721,977
- Liabilities
- $49,075
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN LOWRY (PRESIDENT/BO)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM MESSERLY (EXECUTIVE DI): $147,048 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
St. Gabriel Catholic Radio’s mission is to reach souls with faithful Catholic teaching that inspires conversion of heart and deepening of faith while building up the local Body of Christ. _ New, locally produced programs are produced to fulfill our mission to build up the local Body of Christ: _Answering the Call, The Catholic Doctors_ , and _Zeal for the Kingdom_. _Fall 2011_ St. Gabriel Catholic Radio announces an effort to purchase AM 820, the former home of WOSU-AM. Catherine and her husband, Paul, are parishioners at St. Mary, Delaware. They are involved with the Cenacle of Mary, an organization dedicated to prayer and honoring Our Lady. Catherine is blessed with 4 kids that call her mom. She grew up in the Pittsburgh area and moved to Delaware in 2016. She is employed as the Director of Parish Administration, St John Neumann, Sunbury, and provides outsourced accounting for...
What it reported doing in 2024
St. Gabriel radio maintained a significant radio presence in Ohio in furtherance of its mission to proclaim the gospel of jesus christ by broadcasting the highest quality catholic programming in the diocese of columbus, through am820, its flagship station, and 88.3 fm, a station serving the portsmouth, Ohio area. Both stations air the eternal word television network (ewtn); am820 also provides local programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.02; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $724K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.