Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC
MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,873 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($65,925). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Minn-Iowa Christian Broadcasting Inc does
Mission
Kinship radio exists to communicate that jesus is lord through worship and the word.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
On july 29, 2024, the program core christianity with adriel sanchez was removed from the kinship radio broadcast schedule as the program ceased production. On july 31, 2024, kinship radio dropped the programs the alternative and the short program, two minutes with tony from the broadcast schedule. On june 29, 2025, the program paws and tales was removed from the kinship radio broadcast schedule. The saturday morning airing of adventures in odyssey was also removed from the broadcast schedule on this date. On june 30th, sunday praise with john hayden was removed from the kinship radio broadcast schedule as the program ceased production.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Over the course of the 2024-2025, minn-iowa christian broadcasting, inc., doing business as kinship radio, saw some significant changes. Kinship radio's director of development left kinship so all of the responsbilities that were recorded on last years 990 were moved back to other staff. The full and half day sponsorships are now recorded by our announcers. We also added kjlw, kjca and kjrx stations to the kinship radio network. Our kjlw license was effective 10-17-24, kjca license was effective 12-27-24 and our kjrx license was effective 1-16-25. Other areas of growth and impact included: a successful women's event in mankato with over 750 attendees. Community connections in various kinship radio broadcast areas were made through area "ambassador" volunteer groups to build these relationships. Preparations for the second spearhead summit men's conference also began in earnest and will be hosted by kinship radio on september 20, 2025 at hosanna church in mankato. Kinship radio conducted a second fundraiser for six new stations granted by the fcc as acquisition of equipment and construction was continue by the organizations chief engineer. Kinship christian radio owns and continues…
$1,464,491 spent$308,878 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,464,491.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $3.5M (+28%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $28k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Minn-Iowa Christian Broadcasting Foundation); $210k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Minn-Iowa Christian Broadcasting Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING 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
MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 72% — 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
95% of MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Minn-Iowa Christian Brdcasting Fdn · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC?
- MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,873 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($65,925). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $126,873 in grants to MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINN-IOWA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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