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National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
92
Grants FY2024still arriving
36
States reached
$713k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$8.9MInternational$868kPublic Benefit$838kEducation$469kScience & Tech$187kEnvironment$89kReligion$13kEmployment$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 92 grants below total $4,561,868 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,389,462 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $827,594 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $317k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $624k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $709k
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.9M
$10,716
Median grant
36
States reached
$408M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KCUR-FM$713,441
KQED-FM$497,099
BOISE STATE PUBLIC RADIO$422,093
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO$351,940
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC$332,239
NPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC$325,449
WBHM-FM$269,866
AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO$232,882
NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC MEDIA$151,257
KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC$133,391
KJZZ-FM$74,344
NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO$59,215
WHYY INC$57,727
WFIU PUBLIC RADIO$43,094
KPBS PUBLIC MEDIA$42,553
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KJZZ-FM: $74k → 11%WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $21k → 17%BOISE STATE PUBLIC RADIO: $422k → 8%WITF INC: $20k → 12%KQED INC: $574k → 10%KPBS PUBLIC MEDIA: $43k → 11%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $20k → 14%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $238k → 17%KUT RADIO: $38k → 10%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC MEDIA: $151k → 14%TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $352k → 16%SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO: $24k → 16%WMFE: $22k → 13%WUSF PUBLIC MEDIA (UNIV OF S FLORIDA): $29k → 13%WLRN (SCH BRD MIAMI-DADE COUNTY): $28k → 15%WBHM-FM: $270k → 16%KCUR-FM: $713k → 15%CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $332k → 11%WFIU PUBLIC RADIO: $43k → 18%CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC: $21k → 16%ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $33k → 10%NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO: $59k → 7%KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $133k → 15%KQED-FM: $497k → 10%KPBS PUBLIC MEDIA: $33k → 11%TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $334k → 16%WAMU-FM: $103k → 14%WUSF PUBLIC MEDIA (UNIV OF S FLORIDA): $23k → 13%KCUR-FM: $527k → 15%CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $25k → 11%ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $21k → 10%WHYY INC: $58k → 22%KQED INC: $434k → 10%TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $215k → 16%WAMU-FM 885: $80k → 14%KCUR-FM: $516k → 15%WHYY INC: $44k → 22%KQED-FM: $301k → 10%AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $440k → 14%KCUR-FM: $58k → 15%NPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC: $325k → 14%NPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC: $304k → 14%AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $233k → 14%AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $216k → 14%AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $200k → 14%AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $160k → 14%AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $107k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
NH
WA
ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 49% of National Public Radio Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

National Public Radio Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 56% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 59 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
21

Total granted

$9.6M
$572k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+24%

Still filing today

51%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
    3× · 2021–2024 · $901k · revenue +18%
  • CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $357k · revenue +14%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $183k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $238k · revenue -4%
  • MC
    MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
  • SO
    STATE OF TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2020 · $24k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
5
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Public Radio International Inc

To serve audiences as a distinctive content source for information, insights and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world.

Arts & Culture
8
Prx Inc

To lead changes that expand public media as a trusted source of knowledge, information, and inspiration for all.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
10
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
11
Wnet

Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.

Arts & Culture
12
Community Radio for Northern Colorado

Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnin Tri-State Public Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%54%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/112
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,453

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
42/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KQED INC — $1,806,084 · Arts & CultureKQED INCAMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO — $1,356,359 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIOTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO — $900,940 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIOCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $357,061 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC+31 more — $1,117,365 · Arts & Culture+31 moreCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $1,830,322 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $997,364 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMANPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC — $629,352 · OtherNPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INCBoise State University — $422,093 · OtherBoise State UniversityUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $269,866 · Other+55 more — $992,721 · Other+55 moreAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $182,865 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $95,277 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $26,978 · EducationThe University of Tulsa — $20,190 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $20,000 · EducationMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $19,271 · Education+8 more — $80,235 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC — $238,300 · InternationalIDEASTREAM — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentINLAND FUTURES FOUNDATION OF THE SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT — $8,746 · Employment
Arts & Culture$5,537,809Other$5,141,718Education$444,816International$238,300Youth Development$20,000Employment$8,746

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKQED INC — $1,806,084 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO — $1,356,359 over 8y, 100% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO — $900,940 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC — $629,352 over 2y, 100% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $357,061 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $238,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $182,865 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC — $153,391 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $151,257 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHYY INC — $117,503 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $95,277 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC — $59,337 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $59,215 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $54,153 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO — $38,835 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $36,142 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPENNON ORGANIZATION — $35,491 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $34,861 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION — $33,579 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION — $32,490 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL — $30,688 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWSKG PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $28,007 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION — $27,854 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $26,978 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc — $20,818 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Tulsa — $20,190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDEASTREAM — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc — $19,851 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $19,271 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority — $16,144 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $15,606 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpokane Public Radio — $14,863 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $14,405 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc — $14,402 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKODIAK PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORP — $14,250 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $13,094 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $11,281 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $11,272 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION — $10,446 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION — $9,559 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINLAND FUTURES FOUNDATION OF THE SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT — $8,746 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO — $8,670 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE — $7,863 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Corporation for Publi…Public Broadcasting S…Greater Washington Ed…Cars for Charity IncNational Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…National Writing Proj…The Groundtruth Proje…Ibm International Fou…The Trustees of Colum…
Corporation for Public BroadcastingDC112.9× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Public Broadcasting Service · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · Cars for Charity Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Writing Project Corporation · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization National Public Radio Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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