- Revenue 2025
- $316,231
- Expenses 2025
- $312,187
Program services were 61.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- G41Z
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 7101 NEWPORT AVE STE 205
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
RTBS CONNECTS INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BLIND, LOW VISION, OR PRINT IMPAIRED TO NEWS, INFORMATION, ARTS, AND CULTURE THROUGH THE HUMAN VOICE AND TECHNOLOGY. THROUGH HUMAN CONNECTION, RTBS ENABLES ALL PEOPLE TO REMAIN ACTIVE AND ENGAGED IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
PROVIDE STATEWIDE RADIO READING SERVICE FOR APPROXIMATELY 11,000 PRINT DISABLED INDIVIDUALS.
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PROVIDE STATEWIDE RADIO READING SERVICE FOR APPROXIMATELY 11,000 PRINT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Expenses $190,864 · Revenue $8,275
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
-
ROBERT BURNS
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
MICHAEL PFLUEGER
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
KYLE SOARES
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
MELISSA SMITH
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
RICHARD HARRINGTON
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
RACHEL CARVER
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JOHN MILLER
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
STEPHEN C PAPENFUSS MD
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
RALPH MOROCCO
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
REBEKAH JERDE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $85,774
- From this org
- $83,588
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $2,186
- Hours/week
- 40
-
FRANCIE REBELLOSO
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2025
- Revenue
- $316,231
- Expenses
- $312,187
- Contributions
- $299,211
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $373,761
- Expenses
- $283,621
- Contributions
- $351,899
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $275,468
- Expenses
- $261,596
- Contributions
- $267,513
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $303,342
- Expenses
- $245,016
- Contributions
- $295,302
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $233,354
- Expenses
- $249,683
- Assets (EOY)
- $31,342
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $290,505
- Expenses
- $274,392
- Assets (EOY)
- $51,665
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $256,591
- Expenses
- $280,394
- Assets (EOY)
- $44,538
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $257,935
- Expenses
- $284,494
- Assets (EOY)
- $48,523
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $276,920
- Expenses
- $282,413
- Assets (EOY)
- $78,332
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $255,243
- Expenses
- $302,916
- Assets (EOY)
- $85,066
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $269,161
- Expenses
- $246,747
- Assets (EOY)
- $134,868
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
-
2022 FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF RADIO STATION
-
2022 SUPPORT READING SERVICES
-
$25,000
2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT
-
2024 FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF RADIO STATION
-
2023 FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF RADIO STATION
-
2025 FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF RADIO STATION
-
2024 RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE
-
2023 RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE
-
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2022 RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2025 return
-
RADIO TALKING BOOK LEGACY FUND INC
501(C)(3) · SUPPORT OF EXEMPT PURPOSE · NE
Declared as related by
-
RADIO TALKING BOOK LEGACY FUND INC
On its 2025 return
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.