VSS Catholic Communications Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
412583593
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Omaha, NE, USA
Phone
4025710200
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religious Media, Communications

Reported finances

Revenue
$81,577
Expenses
$6,177
Assets
$75,400
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • James Carroll (President)

People named in this filing

  • James Carroll (President)
  • Jeanette Wojtalewicz (Director)
  • Eric Svoboda (Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide for the special needs of VSS Catholic Communications, Inc, create programming for distribution via EWTN radio, acquisition of stations for Spirit Catholic Radio and its fully owned subsidiaries and creation and funding for the Catholic Media Alliance, LLC.

What it reported doing in 2025

To provide for the funding for the creation of the Catholic Media Alliance, LLC- a membership organization that would provide services (development, marketing, programming, social media and engineering) for a fee. There will be members that provide services and members that will contract for services. Members retain ownership of their apostolate. Having this entity to provide funding for these various initiatives allows for a single entity to accept donations from various geographic areas that are being served. A number of stations have been contacted and expressed an interest. This won't start until the Oklahoma Catholic Radio Network is transitioned and a capital campaign completed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 42
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 88
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 7.6%; rating input score 8
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 92.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.21; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 7.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.