Kansas · Nonprofit
Bott Radio Network Inc
Bott Radio Network Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $661,520 to it, the largest being MINISTRY OUTREACH FOUNDATION ($648,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $662k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Bott Radio Network Inc does
Mission
Promotion of the welfare of communities served by creating, producing, and broadcasting a unique program format consisting of Bible teaching, current events, news, and other public affairs programming of benefit to the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Bott Radio Network (BRN) continued in 2024 to create, produce and broadcast its unique radio format of Bible teachings, current events, news, and other public affairs programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year over a network of 123 radio stations. BRN's radio signal reaches listeners in 15 states with a combined coverage of over 64.5 million people. Our programming can also be found streaming on the internet to computers and mobile devices around the world. BRN sponsors or hosts dozens of major events connecting thousands of listeners with its featured teachers in face-to-face meetings. These events provide an opportunity for the teaching ministries to enhance their educational message to BRN listeners which helps to further the mission and vision of BRN.
$13,807,831 spentof which $46,670 as grants$16,445,323 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,807,831.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.7M to $10.0M (+50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Richard P Bott II
Chairman/President/Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $106k → $17k.
From the IRS filings of Bott Radio Network Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Bott Radio Network Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Bott Radio Network Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Bott Radio Network Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Bott Radio Network Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- BRN Properties LLC · disregarded
- Community Broadcasting Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bott Radio Network Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Bott Radio Network Inc?
- Bott Radio Network Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $661,520 to it, the largest being MINISTRY OUTREACH FOUNDATION ($648,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bott Radio Network Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $661,520 in grants to Bott Radio Network Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bott Radio Network Inc?
- MINISTRY OUTREACH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $648,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bott Radio Network Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing