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ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS

ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,091 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP ($219,167). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.7M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$695k
Net assets
$2.6M
10/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What St Gabriel Communications does

Mission

Iowa Catholic Radio is dedicated to providing the best in Catholic teaching, news, and inspiration. From World Youth Day to the Iowa State Fair, from Dowling Catholic to your local parish. Our mission is to save souls and to proclaim the Gospel! Iowa Catholic Radio is the only Catholic radio broadcaster for the community of central Iowa. We serve as the radio voice for the parishes and schools of the Diocese of Des Moines, including Bishop Joensen, Dowling Catholic High School, Knights of Columbus, and Catholic Charities, offering more than half a million Christians the opportunity to hear the Word of God.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Iowa Catholic Radio is dedicated to providing the best in Catholic teaching, news, and inspiration. From World Youth Day to the Iowa State Fair, from Dowling Catholic to your local parish. Our mission is to save souls and to proclaim the Gospel! Iowa Catholic Radio is the only Catholic radio broadcaster for the community of central Iowa. We serve as the radio voice for the parishes and schools of the Diocese of Des Moines, including Bishop Joensen, Dowling Catholic High School, Knights of Columbus, and Catholic Charities, offering more than half a million Christians the opportunity to hear the Word of God. In 2012, the organization acquired two FM stations that significantly extend the listening area of the radio stations. The organization is now able to broadcast to over a half million potential listeners in Central Iowa.

    $774,581 spent$252,374 earned by the program
    94% of program spending
  2. St. Gabriel Communications held a Men's Stag, and other listener centric events to promote fellowship in the Catholic Community.

    $53,703 spent$233,986 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  3. There are no further events to report

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $828,284.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($980k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 123 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 106 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 209 ($2.0M) Expenses 123 ($1.3M) Net assets 154 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 147 ($1.4M) Expenses 172 ($1.8M) Net assets 128 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 277 ($2.7M) Expenses 185 ($2.0M) Net assets 177 ($2.6M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (277)Expenses (185)Net assets (177)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $5.0M (+80%).

$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.8M
$5.0M
$5.7M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$89k
’20
$82k
’21
$727k
’22
−$395k
’23
$738k
’24
1.1
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed1920191921
Joined·+2+5+0+2
No longer listed·1600
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $52k → $53k.

5 of 13 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 ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS’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

ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS.

32%
largest funder
75%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 42% · 2021 32% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% — 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 ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

98% of ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

NY
IA
PA
KS

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 25%Fundraising 16%

Governance

15
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.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Trinity Communications Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS?
ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $695,091 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP ($219,167). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $695,091 in grants to ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS?
CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP is the largest funder on record, with $219,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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