Virginia · Nonprofit
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,851,107 to it, the largest being SALTSGIVER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,750,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $282M
- Funders on record
- 140
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $235M
What The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc does
Mission
The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. Cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. The mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to prepare the nations of the world for the coming of jesus christ and the establishment of the kingdom of god on earth. Our ultimate goal is to achieve a time in history when "the knowledge of the lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
International outreach: in 2024 cbn produced programming and other content in 90 different languages, and broadcast programs to audiences in 174 countries and territories. Since inception, cbn has worked in 164 foreign languages and dialects. See schedule o for more details. The goal of cbn's global outreach is to take the gospel message around the world and share the love and hope of jesus with everyone on earth. To achieve this, cbn's innovative approach focuses on the development of local cbn centers and partnerships with local christian groups. These cbn centers, which provide local outreach through the use of recurring television, radio, internet, and video programming, are key to the integrity of cbn's worldwide evangelism efforts and have proven a powerful outreach tool that builds trust and a solid viewership base. The cultivation of partnerships with local christian organizations is another key strategy to maximize resources and the impact of cbn media evangelism and community-based humanitarian outreaches. Cbn now has 68 episodes of a new version of the cbn animation, superbook, a series of animated bible stories cbn originally produced in japan in the early 1980's. The…
$102,996,510 spentof which $14,976,335 as grants$62,719,558 earned by the program47% of program spendingDomestic production and airing of christian television programming, internet and radio: the 700 club, a live television program that airs weekdays from cbn broadcast facilities, is the primary program used by cbn to preach the gospel of jesus christ. Cbn is also an innovator in its use of cbn.com to preach the gospel of jesus via the internet. Cbn combines both forms of media, television and internet, in the cutting-edge program 700 club interactive. Cbn launched the cbn news channel, the first 24-hour christian television news channel, on october 1, 2018. See schedule o for more details. The 700 club is a live television program that airs weekdays from the christian broadcasting network's (cbn) broadcast facilities in virginia beach, virginia, and is the primary program used by cbn to preach the gospel of jesus christ in the u.s. On the air continuously since 1966, the 700 club is one of the longest-running programs in broadcast history. Hosted by gordon robertson and terry meeuwsen, the 700 club is a christian news/magazine style program that has the variety and pacing of a morning show with in-depth investigative reporting by the cbn news team plus interviews, inspiring…
$86,528,004 spent$558,689 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe prayer center is a department of cbn that provides scripture based prayer, biblical literature, account service, and product orders to people through cbn's telephone prayer line and digital channels. It also performs outbound calling for ministry and fundraising purposes. In 2024, the prayer center department handled 333,889 outbound and 1,699,277 inbound phone calls. A total of 1,792 people prayed the prayer of salvation with our prayer center employees and 4,530 people rededicated their life to christ. The primary focus of the prayer center is to base every interaction in biblical principal, scripture, and prayer. Prayer center employees make outgoing phone calls, answer incoming calls and texts, and engage with the online community with prayer from a faith based perspective. The goal of the prayer center is to provide compassionate prayer ministry and outstanding customer service on every interaction. Prayer center employees also provide relevant links to cbn's free resources for further ministry.
$15,479,685 spent7% of program spendingCbn's other program services consist of humanitarian relief activities through its support of affiliate operation blessing international relief and development corporation (ob) and donations to others. See below for information regarding ob's international relief, hunger strike force and domestic disaster relief programs plus cbn's helping the home front initiative which helps active duty military families. International relief: during fy25, ob held international mobile medical clinics that provided free medical care including general medical and dental services. Ob also distributed medicine and medical supplies to partners around the world, which went to outfit resource poor areas benefiting children and adults alike . Ob provided many life-changing surgeries such as cleft lip and palate, cataract and more to those in need. Ob also equips community members to become community health volunteers who can provide basic lifesaving skills to members of their community for injury, illness, and more. Operation blessing was instrumental in feeding hungry people around the world. To help people put food on the table, operation blessing equipped individuals with marketable job skills, small…
$12,631,978 spentof which $12,631,978 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $217,636,177.
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. 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 $147M to $190M (+29%).
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.
73% of The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Gordon P Robertson
Chairman / CEO / president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $5.6M.
44 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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: $160k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 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
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
64% 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 The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 20% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 19% · 2022 34% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
63% of The Christian Broadcasting 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 $12M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 30 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13 religion nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like The Christian Broadcasting 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 Virginia
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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Part of a family of 30 related entities
- Operation Blessing International · exempt
- Regent University · exempt
- CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING ASSOCIATES Inc · exempt
- Christian Broadcasting Network (Uk) Ltd · exempt
- CBN DEUTSCHLAND Club 700 EV · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Christian Broadcasting 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 The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc?
- The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,851,107 to it, the largest being SALTSGIVER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,750,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc have?
- IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $31,851,107 in grants to The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc?
- SALTSGIVER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 140 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