Massachusetts · Nonprofit
APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC
APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,694 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($7,994). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Apple Country Radio Inc does
Mission
To carry out educational and charitable activities via radio, print, video and online; to establish, build, maintain and operate a volunteer-based, noncommercial, community broadcast radio station in the town of Brookfield, Massachusetts, in compliance with Federal Communications Commission regulations and Massachusetts General Law; to develop, produce and broadcast a variety of educational, cultural and public service programs for the benefit of Brookfield and surrounding communities; to make broadcast air time available and to offer education and resources to residents of Brookfield and the general public in and for the production of and dissemination of community-based media; to provide residents of Brookfield and the surrounding communities with information and instructions from local public safety agencies in the event of emergencies or disasters; and to use its assets to promote community education, cohesion, partnership and development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Broadcasting a complete schedule of programming at 98.1FM for Brookfield and all or substantial portions of surrounding towns, including West Brookfield, East Brookfield, North Brookfield, Spencer, and portions of Sturbridge, Warren and Ware, for a listening audience of approximately 13,657 households as determined by the U.S. 2020 Census. Program service expenses include studio space maintenance and operational expenses, including utilities, music licensing fees and software updates.
$4,028 spentof which $6,531 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,028.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1k to $5k (+241%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $95 → $9k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
84% of APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC?
- APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,694 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($7,994). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $9,694 in grants to APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,994 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPLE COUNTRY RADIO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing