NATIONAL RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

X800

Classification

7000

Street

PO BOX 77704

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 · 2024

• 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.

  Expenses $1,688,392 · Revenue $3,175,093

• NRB 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.

  Expenses $975,590 · Revenue $939,973

• NRB 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.

  Expenses $532,300

• The 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 circumstances we can offer competitive royalty rates through our affiliation with sister organizations such as the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC). Non-commercial radio broadcasters and digital webcasters also benefit from the work done by the MLC. Our main area of advocacy for this group is our participation in the digital webcasting proceedings before the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) which sets the rates that all digital licensees of music must pay to SoundExchange. These proceedings set royalty rates in five-year increments. The MLC also negotiates statutory rates with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and GMR covering over the air broadcasting of programming that is focused on either talk or music. These rates apply to most non-commercial broadcasters (with the exception of NPR affiliates and certain college-affiliated, on campus broadcasters) Finally, the MLC is an active participant on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. We are a member of the M.I.C. (music, innovation, and consumers) trade coalition. M.I.C. is a group of music licensees from a wide variety of industries including television, music venues, digital media, fitness facilities, breweries, and other public facilities that use music. The committee also partners with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the RMLC in advocating for the needs of music licensees and dialoging with the U.S. Copyright Office via the submission of public comments concerning key music licensing initiatives.

  Expenses $2,899,761 · Revenue $179,520

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $6,762,028

  Expenses

  $7,490,962

  Contributions

  $2,391,790

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,850,537

  Expenses

  $4,460,387

  Contributions

  $380,020

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,313,414

  Expenses

  $3,616,332

  Contributions

  $232,741

  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

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,947,116

  Expenses

  $3,118,736

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,281,182

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,194,254

  Expenses

  $3,710,554

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,114,346

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,227,453

  Expenses

  $2,138,555

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,057,544

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

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

• CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK INC

  $250,000

  2024 · Christian Broadcasting

• TURNING POINT USA INC

  $15,000

  2022 · AWARENESS OF TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES

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.

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