Skip to content

Montana · Nonprofit

CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC

CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,066 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$249k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$74k
Net assets
$46k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Christian Media Ministries Inc does

Mission

This organization operates an fm radio station and an am radio station as a christian ministry aimed at the gallatin valley in montana. Program expenses are for the daily operations of the station.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. This organization operates an fm radio station and an am radio station as a christian ministry aimed at the gallatin valley in montana. Program expenses are for the daily operations of the station.

  2. This organization operates an fm radio station and an am radio station as a christian ministry aimed at the gallatin valley in montana. Program expenses are for the daily operations of the station.

    $158,802 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,802.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($243k) Net assets -377 ($-169665)2022 Revenue 115 ($205k) Expenses 80 ($194k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2023 Revenue 97 ($173k) Expenses 66 ($160k) Net assets 113 ($51k)2024 Revenue 140 ($249k) Expenses 86 ($208k) Net assets 102 ($46k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (140)Expenses (86)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $96k to $161k (+67%).

$96k
$161k
$176k
$167k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

48% of CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$64k
’21
$11k
’22
$14k
’23
$41k
’24
2.3
months of
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.

2021202220232024
Listed7333
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $10k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES 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

CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 34% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES 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 Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 0%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

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 CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC?
CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,066 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $74,066 in grants to CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC?
GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHRISTIAN MEDIA MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds Christian Media Ministries →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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