The Word Network

Legal name: World Religious Relief Co Word Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383500467
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2011
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2011
Location
Southfield, MI, USA
Phone
2483574566
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Religious Television
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,226,346
Expenses
$16,694,134
Assets
$17,159,174
Liabilities
$3,076,381

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Establishing & maintaining a 24 hour non-profit urban religious tv channel through broadcast rights for religious, theological & educational programs.

What it reported doing in 2011

Broadcast services & facilities fees as per agreement to broadcast urban religious, theological & educational programs through satellite tv network, channel fees for broadcasting urban religious programs and programming transport expenses to broadcast urban religious programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5.5M · 5 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2009 to 2011
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.