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Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida

Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,070 to it, the largest being GRIZZARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.7M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$3.9M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida does

Mission

Religious gathering, outreach, education and inspiration of radio audience.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of non-commercial educational radio stations which broadcast to audiences in the U.S. Providing non-commercial radio broadcasting with family oriented, educational, religious, informative, and ethnic programming.

    $1,191,658 spent$334,371 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,191,658.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($378k)2018 Revenue 101 ($3.4M) Expenses 131 ($3.5M) Net assets 69 ($262k)2019 Revenue 75 ($2.5M) Expenses 73 ($1.9M) Net assets 214 ($807k)2020 Revenue 65 ($2.2M) Expenses 69 ($1.8M) Net assets 302 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 80 ($2.6M) Expenses 72 ($1.9M) Net assets 493 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 79 ($2.6M) Expenses 71 ($1.9M) Net assets 686 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 84 ($2.8M) Expenses 80 ($2.1M) Net assets 859 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 82 ($2.7M) Expenses 78 ($2.1M) Net assets 1036 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (78)Net assets (1036)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.9M to $2.7M (+38%).

$548k
$490k
$923k
$1.4M
$1.9M
$2.7M
$3.3M
$4.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$670k
’17
−$116k
’18
$545k
’19
$333k
’20
$721k
’21
$731k
’22
$654k
’23
$669k
’24
22
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Tom Stultz

CEO/director

Board chair

John Gilmour End 12102024

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed777666712
Joined·+0+0+2+0+0+1+10
No longer listed·0030005
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $807.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
2
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida’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

Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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

Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

CA
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $870 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 25%Fundraising 17%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Educational Media Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida?
Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,070 to it, the largest being GRIZZARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,070 in grants to Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida?
GRIZZARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Association for Community Education Inc DBA Radio Nueva Vida find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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