Storychannel USA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851610163
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Cle Elum, WA, USA
Phone
5098596579
Rating
41
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,484
Expenses
$64,439
Assets
$5,814
Liabilities
$2,002

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Timothy W Surdyk (President)
  • Dean A Kato (Vice President)
  • Marvin L Klein (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Timothy W Surdyk (President)
  • Debra D Johnson (Secretary/Treasurer)
  • Dean A Kato (Vice President)

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

StoryChannel USA staff, affiliates and volunteers support and promote the production of Christian video for broadcast via satellite, online streaming and mobile apps along with follow-up to inquiries received from viewers.

What it reported doing in 2024

SC USA staff, affiliates and volunteers produced (filming, dubbing and editing) as well as negotiating rights to other Christian video programming. SC USA staff affiliates and volunteers supported the streaming of this content online at www.storychannel.tv and via satellite in North Africa.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 1.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.