Alabama · Nonprofit
ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC (Alabama) receives grants from 296 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,040,820 to it, the largest being THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ($5,502,650). 201 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $113M
- Funders on record
- 296
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $80M
What Eternal Word Television Network Inc does
Mission
Ewtn global catholic network operates television, radio, and internet media networks from a catholic perspective, producing original programming, inspiring talk shows, entertaining children's animation, exclusive teaching series, live coverage of church events, and thought-provoking documentaries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ewtn global catholic network operates television, radio, & internet media networks from a catholic perspective.
$77,119,135 spentof which $2,631,708 as grants$238,556 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $77,119,135.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 $56M to $79M (+41%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Michael P Warsaw
Chairman, CEO, & governor
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 63 funders to 145 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $4.7M.
56 of 296 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ewtn Religious Catalogue Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 296 funders by total. 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
ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
73% 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 ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 46% · 2019 46% · 2020 37% · 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8.4M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 40 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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.
Against its field
ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13 religion nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Ewtn Religious Catalogue Inc · exempt
- Sebastian P Long Testamentary Trust · exempt
- Ewtn-Tv Ggmbh · exempt
- Eternal Word Television Network Ca · exempt
- Ewtn News Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC?
- ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC (Alabama) receives grants from 296 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,040,820 to it, the largest being THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ($5,502,650). 201 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 296 organizations giving $28,040,820 in grants to ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC, 201 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC?
- THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL is the largest funder on record, with $5,502,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 296 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing