Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
National Religious Broadcasters
National Religious Broadcasters (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,038 to it, the largest being The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ($291,531). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $752k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What National Religious Broadcasters does
Mission
NRB is a nonpartisan, international association of Christian communicators whose member organizations represent millions of listeners, viewers, and readers. We work to protect the free speech rights of our members by advocating those rights in governmental, corporate, and media sectors, and works to foster excellence, integrity, and accountability in our membership by providing networking, educational, ministry, and relational opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The NRB International Christian Media Convention is the largest nationally and internationally recognized gathering dedicated solely to Christian communications. year over year for the last 5 years, the Convention continues to reach record attendance, with NRB 2024 at nearly 4900 attendees, a growth of 68% since 2019. The dynamic and award-winning Exhibit Hall has expanded 61% over the last 5 years, featuring organizations that are creating unmatched opportunities for ministry growth and collaboration. Attendees engaged in impactful keynote sessions, practical workshops, and live media tapings designed to expand Gospel influence across every platform. This premier event continues to equip Christian leaders to communicate biblical truth with clarity, conviction, and global reach.
$1,688,392 spent$3,175,093 earned by the program28% of program spendingNRB membership equips Christian communicators to grow their ministries and strengthen their Gospel outreach. Members represent a wide range of industries, including radio, television, film, digital media, publishing, worship technologies, and emerging communication platforms. They gain access to exclusive leadership webinars, industry resources, and specialized networking events. Members also receive valuable promotional opportunities across NRB's media platforms and discounted rates for advertising and convention participation. Through leadership councils and advisory groups, NRB members help shape the future of Christian communications and advance biblical truth with excellence and integrity.
$975,590 spent$939,973 earned by the program16% of program spendingNRB actively defends the rights of Christian communicators through strategic public policy engagement and timely communications. In 2024, NRB advanced four key policy priorities: advocating for a favorable business environment for broadcasters, addressing corporate and governmental threats to free speech, defending the rights of religious nonprofits, and protecting First Amendment freedoms through legal advocacy. Alongside this policy work, NRB kept members informed through regular publications, including NRB Today and Washington Next Week, offering critical updates on legislative developments, industry trends, and member happenings. Policy briefings and original content equipped members to navigate challenges and boldly advance biblical truth.
$532,300 spent9% of program spendingThe NRB Music License ("MLC") has been serving the needs of religious-focused radio broadcasters and digital licensees for over four decades. Because the music licensing landscape contains two entirely different royalty environments, the committee has developed expertise in meeting the needs of both commercial and non-commercial licensees. Content providers that offer Bible-based, long-form programs share unique licensing needs. These programs often contain too much music to qualify for an "all-talk" royalty rate, but do not contain enough music to make a "blanket" all you can eat rate cost effective. The MLC has met these needs by negotiating a new category of music license referred to as program period or per program. Religious licensees that meet the qualifications for this license type can significantly reduce their royalty obligations for over the air broadcasts of long-form programming. Commercial radio broadcasters and digital webcasters benefit from the MLC's efforts through a variety of specifically negotiated licenses with performing rights organizations such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and GMR. In some cases, the MLC directly negotiates these agreements and in other…
$2,899,761 spent$179,520 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,096,043.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.1M to $2.1M (+100%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 8% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of National Religious Broadcasters’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $40k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 National Religious Broadcasters’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
National Religious Broadcasters leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 National Religious Broadcasters.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2019 42% · 2020 79% · 2021 57% · 2022 57% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of National Religious Broadcasters's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
National Religious Broadcasters draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Against its field
National Religious Broadcasters has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like National Religious Broadcasters
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- NRB Network Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Religious Broadcasters: 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 National Religious Broadcasters?
- National Religious Broadcasters (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $752,038 to it, the largest being The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ($291,531). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Religious Broadcasters have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $752,038 in grants to National Religious Broadcasters, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Religious Broadcasters?
- The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc is the largest funder on record, with $291,531 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Religious Broadcasters find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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