St Jude Media Ministry Inc
Legal name: St Jude Media Ministry Inc Co Ashley Olbrich
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030411668
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Cary, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9193492316
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,637
- Expenses
- $55,554
- Assets
- $213,272
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ashley Olbrich (President)
- Tayler Dalpe (Vice President)
- Patricia Martin (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ashley Olbrich (President)
- Tayler Dalpe (Vice President)
- Marie Hantak (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
St Jude Media Ministry Inc is a radio and TV ministry reaching out to lonely, troubled, and forgotten people across America.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide spiritual motivation, aide, assistance, comfort, and console the sick and lonely populationthrough prerecorded radio broadcasting inspirational messages.Also maintaining a spiritual website that provides daily inspiration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.7%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 10
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -108.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.84; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 20.7% of revenue deployed · 9.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.