The Family Radio Network, Inc.
Legal name: The Family Radio Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391280969
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Appleton, WI, United States
- Phone
- 800-236-9364
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,623,522
- Expenses
- $2,514,246
- Assets
- $6,998,650
- Liabilities
- $991,536
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ZACH COCHRAN (CEO)
- JOHN NYGAARD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDY KILGAS (SENIOR ACCOU): $140,947 total reported compensation
- ZACH COCHRAN (CEO): $130,036 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Volunteer Spotlight: Mary Wagging Wisdom: Insights I’ve gained from our 9-year-old, 15-pound Havapoo named Dolly Paperfest. THE FAMILY’S VISION _Trusting God, we will ‘win a million’ souls for Jesus Christ._ THE FAMILY’S MISSION. THE FAMILY’S MISSION _The Family broadcasts the Hope of Jesus Christ to strengthen and encourage listeners._ OUR CORE VALUES. The Family updates mission and core values to reflect new vision to ‘win a million’ 2025 The Family now broadcasts in Milwaukee at 92.9/102.5 FM and 1460 AM.
What it reported doing in 2025
The family radio network held its 33rd annual help for the homeless hygiene drive were over 723,000 new hygiene and cleaning supplies were donated to stock the shelves of 137 crisis programs in 22 communities across Wisconsin. Over 1,050 businesses, schools, and churches hosted collection boxes. In august 2025, the family radio network held its third annual pb&j drive (peanut butter & jelly). In total, 9,245 poundsmore than four tonsof peanut butter and jelly were donated, enough to make an estimated 148,233 pb&j sandwiches. The pb&j drive donations were distributed to food banks and crisis agencies across Wisconsin.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.78; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.