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BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA

BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,191,286 to it, the largest being BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ($1,580,828). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$898k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$1.1M
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Brazos Valley Public Broadcasting Founda does

Mission

To serve as an essential lifelong resource providing quality radio programs and services for the enrichment of the lives of central texans.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Broadcast public radio programming in the central texas area. Produce high quality local educational programs.

    $471,255 spent$214,549 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $471,255.

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 ($787k) Expenses 100 ($709k) Net assets 100 ($573k)2018 Revenue 98 ($769k) Expenses 102 ($725k) Net assets 108 ($617k)2019 Revenue 99 ($779k) Expenses 98 ($695k) Net assets 122 ($701k)2020 Revenue 115 ($906k) Expenses 102 ($720k) Net assets 155 ($887k)2021 Revenue 129 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($706k) Net assets 209 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 104 ($819k) Expenses 106 ($754k) Net assets 220 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 103 ($807k) Expenses 105 ($746k) Net assets 231 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 98 ($769k) Expenses 131 ($929k) Net assets 203 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 114 ($898k) Expenses 131 ($930k) Net assets 198 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (131)Net assets (198)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 $1.3M to $1.8M (+38%).

$613k
$673k
$755k
$983k
$1.3M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$1.6M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$78k
’17
$44k
’18
$84k
’19
$186k
’20
$310k
’21
$65k
’22
$61k
’23
−$160k
’24
−$32k
’25
15
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

Joe Riley

President/CEO

Board chair

Jeffry Archer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed262020222421212021
Joined·+2+0+2+5+2+3+2+3
No longer listed·80035332
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $353k → $273k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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total
Baylor Universityunclassified
$1.6M
funders
4
3
4
4
4
4
4
5
4
1

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA’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

BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA.

50%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 67% · 2019 65% · 2020 52% · 2021 58% · 2022 48% · 2023 50% — 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

53% of BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA's grant income comes from Texas funders.

DC
TX

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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

BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve15.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 41%Fundraising 9%

Governance

17
board members
53%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

  • Baylor University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA?
BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,191,286 to it, the largest being BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ($1,580,828). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,191,286 in grants to BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA?
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,580,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 5 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