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GODS WORLD PUBLICATIONS INC

EIN 56-0538016 ASHEVILLE, NC

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Revenue 2024
$16,976,771
Expenses 2024
$14,728,712

Program services were 74.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X830
Classification
7000
Street
PO BOX 2330

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PUBLICATION OF RELIGIOUS NEWS, JOURNALS, AND MATERIALS

  • AS A JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE, GOD'S WORLD PUBLICATIONS, INC. PROVIDED DIRECT REPORTING ON NEWS AND HUMAN INTEREST STORIES WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. IN 2016 WE INCREASED OUR COVERAGE, PARTICULARLY ON OUR DIGITAL AND RADIO PLATFORMS. OUR JOURNALISM TRAINING PROGRAM, WORLD JOURNALISM INSTITUTE (WJI), CONTINUED TRAINING ASPIRING JOURNALISTS IN RESIDENTIAL CLASSES DURING FISCAL YEAR 2024. WITH OUR YOUTH NEWS PRODUCTS, WE DRAMATICALLY INCREASED OUR COVERAGE, PARTICULARLY IN DIGITAL FORMATS, TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF OUR MEMBERS AND CHILDREN.

    Expenses $11,006,755 · Grants $66,600 · Revenue $5,856,224

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.

  • Charles Pepin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dana Sanders

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Strassner

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Edna Lopez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Howard Miller

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • John Burke

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • John Weiss

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Kevin Cusack

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Mariam Bell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Peter Lillback

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Russell Pulliam

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • William Newton

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Kevin Martin

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $184,170
    From this org
    $142,741
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,429
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $142,741
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $30,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,929
    Filer's total
    $184,170
  • Michele Bartlett

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $124,142
    From this org
    $113,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,142
    Hours/week
    40
  • Brian Basham

    Program Director/Host

    Total calculated
    $166,694
    From this org
    $134,836
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,858
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,836
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,250
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,608
    Filer's total
    $166,694
  • Carl Azuz

    Host

    Total calculated
    $172,981
    From this org
    $153,036
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,945
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,836
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $3,200
    Deferred
    $9,192
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,753
    Filer's total
    $172,981
  • Debra Meissner

    Director of Development

    Total calculated
    $146,203
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,203
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lynn Vincent

    Co-CCO/Executive Editor

    Total calculated
    $152,687
    From this org
    $149,916
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,771
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,916
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,649
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,122
    Filer's total
    $152,687
  • Nick Eicher

    Co-CCO/Co-Host

    Total calculated
    $181,244
    From this org
    $161,834
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,410
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,834
    Bonus
    $22,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,720
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,690
    Filer's total
    $181,244

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
    $16,976,771
    Expenses
    $14,728,712
    Contributions
    $9,262,448
    Grants paid
    $66,600
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,297,285
    Expenses
    $15,665,054
    Contributions
    $7,919,618
    Grants paid
    $80,650
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $14,902,950
    Expenses
    $15,718,797
    Contributions
    $7,606,052
    Grants paid
    $83,124

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 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
    $14,166,802
    Expenses
    $13,715,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,447,758
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,744,074
    Expenses
    $11,758,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,809,333
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,160,512
    Expenses
    $10,654,697
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,264,725
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,198,580
    Expenses
    $9,514,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,997,962
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,863,530
    Expenses
    $9,221,358
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,749,522

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 2024 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.