Jerry Falwell's Organizational Legacy

The story of Rev. Falwell's career is told in the organizations and projects he founded throughout his life. 

The Reverend Jerry Falwell leaves behind most of the charitable and nonprofit organizations that he founded and sometimes led:

• The first is Thomas Road Baptist Church (EIN 54-0808748, church, no Form 990), which Rev. Falwell started in 1956 when he was 22 years old.  According to the church web site, TRBC now has 25,000 members and the total revenues of all Jerry Falwell ministries is over $250 million.  The church lists Rev. Falwell as its senior pastor (the only other church staff listed are the music staff).
• At the outset of his career, he started a radio and television program, the Old Time Gospel Hour.
• One of his early charity projects was the Elim Home for Alcoholics and Drug-Addicted Men, it remains a ministry of TRBC (hence no Form 990) and is now located in Madison Heights, Virginia.
• Liberty Christian Academy (EIN 54-0831546, church, no Form 990), started as the Lynchburg Christian Academy in 1967, still offers K-12 education and now has an Early Learning Center as well.
• In the late sixties, a bus ministry was started as outreach to the inner city (of Lynchburg).  Eventually, this evolved into the Center, which still operates in downtown Lynchburg. 
• Liberty University (EIN 54-0946734 Form 990), founded as Liberty Baptist College in 1971, has income of $162 million and a staff of nearly 2,000 people.  The school lists Rev. Falwell as its full-time chancellor and president, with compensation of $236,113 and benefits of $19,326.
• The first Moral Majority organization was started in 1979 and was disbanded in 1989 (it was revived in 2004).
  
• Liberty Godparent Foundation (EIN 52-1372460 Form 990) provides support for unwed mothers and was founded in the mid-1980s.  It had income of about $776,000 in the year ended June, 2006.
• Liberty Counsel (EIN 59-2986294 Form 990) is a charity law firm that specializes in litigation relating to religious freedom, founded in 1989.  It has a staff of twenty and reported income for the year ended June 30, 2006 at almost $1.4 million.
• In 1995, he started up the National Liberty Journal, which does not appear to be a nonprofit venture. 
• Jerry Falwell Ministries (EIN 54-1702723 Form 990) reports income of $15 million in 2005 that was mostly paid out to affiliated organizations, especially TRBC and what appears to be a for-profit subsidiary called TRBC LLC.  There is also a smaller payment to an organization called Piedmont International Outreach, about which no further information could be found, except that it has a scanner frequency in Lynchburg.  Around 2002, JFM absorbed the assets of the Liberty Broadcasting Network (EIN 54-1381866 Form 990), which is now dormant.
  
• Liberty Alliance (EIN 54-1364971 Form 990) is a 501(c)(4) civic league that is now the vehicle for the revitalized Moral Majority Coalition that launched in 2004.  The revived organization has a focus on voter registration.  It had income of just under a million in the year ended June 30, 2006.
• There is also a radio station, WRVL-FM and a low-power (Class A) television station WTLU, which appears to be licensed to Liberty University.  The Liberty Channel, which provides satellite and cable programming, is part of JFM. 

What I find noteworthy in this extensive trail of organizations left behind by Rev. Falwell is how little traditional charity appears in it.  Rev. Falwell's career is one that shifted the emphasis of the evangelical church institutions from evangelism and charity toward education and political advocacy. 

Comments

[Nemo Dat]

Little "traditional charity"? I see a church, a university, a school, a men's outreach, an outreach to unwed mothers, all of which clearly fall into the category of traditional charitable institutions. How do you define "traditional charity"? If it's only soup kitchens and homelesss shelters, then, I guess you're right. If only those pesky evangelicals would crawl back into the box of "traditional charity" and keep their noses out of public policy.

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