Georgia · Nonprofit
AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE
AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,759,267 to it, the largest being BARINOWSKI FOUNDATION INC ($5,653,583). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Augusta Radio Fellowship Institute does
Mission
Christian radio broadcasting
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Listener supported non-profit christian broadcasting network serving the areas of augusta, millen, vidalia, byron, and jesup, georgia.
$1,458,500 spentof which $4,200 as grants$43,504 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,458,500.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $4.9M to $10M (+111%).
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.
90% of AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Clarence T Barinowski
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $84k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE’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
AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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
100% of AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Barinowski Investment Company LP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE: 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 AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE?
- AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,759,267 to it, the largest being BARINOWSKI FOUNDATION INC ($5,653,583). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $5,759,267 in grants to AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE?
- BARINOWSKI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,653,583 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUGUSTA RADIO FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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