Nebraska · Nonprofit
VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC
VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,334 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($157,060). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Vss Catholic Communications Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to answering the call of the late holy father, st. John paul ii, for a new evangelization. Our charism in the mission of evangelization is to broadly employ broadcast media to transmit the gospel of jesus christ with the fullness of the living tradition as preserved, revered and proclaimed by the catholic church. To provide an alternative to the secular programming found on radio and television, serving the religious educational needs of listeners across nebraska, western iowa, and across the united states via our app and online streaming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vss catholic communications, inc. Dba spirit catholic radio network, operates nine full-power fm radio stations, and three translator stations across nebraska which serves nebraska, western iowa, and parts of south dakota, missouri, wyoming and kansas - reaching over 2 million potential listeners. We also provide programming and engineering support to eight low-powered fm affiliate stations. We are challenging our listeners to grow in their faith each day. We feel that the biggest problem we have to address is the moral decay of our culture and life of selfishness lived by many people. If people grow in their faith, they become more altruistic and live their lives for others that expresses itself through kindness, charity and selflessness. Jesus christ and the teachings of his church.
$1,884,979 spentof which $81,577 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,884,979.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.1M to $7.9M (+12%).
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.
100% of VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 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.
Chief executive
Eric Svoboda
Executive director and secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $24k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS 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
VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 26% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 50% · 2023 99% — 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
71% of VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
78% of VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS 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 $72k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 1 related entity
- Vss Catholic Communications Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS 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 VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC?
- VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,334 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($157,060). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $330,334 in grants to VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $157,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VSS CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 11 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