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A network measured by what the community gets.

MBSGG is a for-profit company with a nonprofit heart. Every church we put on air and every artist who keeps their rights is the point — not a marketing story we tell afterwards.

Our Commitments

Five promises we can be held to.

Not values on a wall. Specific, checkable commitments — hold us to them publicly.

We will never acquire an artist's rights

No masters, no publishing, no exclusivity, in any agreement we offer. Ever.

Submission will always be free

National Spotlight and music submission carry no fee, now or later.

No church is turned away for lack of equipment

If you can get us a recording on a phone, we can get you on the air.

Foundation scholarships are funded by our growth

As the network grows the scholarship pool grows with it, not the other way round.

We publish what we actually achieve

Real member counts, broadcast hours and scholarship dollars — not estimates.

Why community impact is the business model, not the charity arm.

A media network that extracts from its members eventually runs out of members. One that makes its members more successful gets more of them, and keeps them longer.

That is not idealism — it is the whole reason the no-rights-acquisition model works. An artist who keeps their catalogue stays for a decade. An artist who signs theirs away leaves the moment they can.

The same is true of a congregation. A church that grows because it went on air tells every other pastor it knows.

Bloodstone Legacy Foundation

The nonprofit that keeps the door open.

Our nonprofit affiliate exists so money is never the reason a gifted person stays unheard.

Scholarships

Academy Access

Full and partial scholarships to the Artist Development Academy for artists who cannot cover tuition.

Sponsored Slots

Church Broadcasting

Sponsored broadcast tiers for small congregations who could never carry the cost of production themselves.

Education

Community Workshops

Free media, recording and business workshops run in the neighbourhoods we serve.

Legal status: the Bloodstone Legacy Foundation's 501(c)(3) determination is pending. Until it is granted we do not describe donations as tax-deductible.
The Numbers

The gap we were built to close.

These are the markets MBSGG serves — and the reason a community-owned network has room to exist at all.

335K
Protestant & Christian churches

Of roughly 373,000 US congregations. The median one has 70 people and $205,000 a year to run everything.

Hartford Institute for Religion Research
84%
Of Black Protestants listen

To religious audio programming — the highest rate of any group measured, and squarely our community.

Pew Research Center, 2025
0.4%
Of foundation funding

Reaches the 60% of charitable nonprofits operating on under $50,000. Only 22% ever receive a single grant.

Candid, 2019–2023
2017
UNESCO City of Music

Kansas City was the first US city to earn the designation — cited for jazz, KC swing, gospel and the blues.

City of Kansas City, Missouri

Build something in your community.

Whether you want to be on the network, sponsor someone else onto it, or bring MBSGG to your city — start here.