California · Nonprofit
CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC
CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,271,188 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($6,701,923). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $-12269160
What Capital Public Radio Fdba Kxpr/Kxjz Inc does
Mission
Capital public radio, inc.'s purpose is to provide a trusted source of information, music, arts, and entertainment for curious and thoughtful people, in an efficient, sustainable way, strengthening the civic and cultural life of the community served.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided listening audience of approximately 500,000 per week with non-commercial and fine art radio programming including news, classical and jazz music.
$7,105,522 spent$2,566,324 earned by the program100% of program spendingPartial funds provided by the sacramento metropolitan cable television commission to give sacramento county cable subscribers public radio programming including non-commercial news, classical and jazz music.
$8,840 spent0% of program spendingFunds provided by california healthcare foundation for the support health care coverage 2025-2026 grant to provide support for health reporting at capital public radio on health topics which align with chcf's organizational goals.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,114,362.
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 2021 to 2022, from $20M to $40M (+101%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 15% · 2022 8% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% 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.
Board chair
Mark Wheeler
Director/board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.0M.
12 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Capital Public Radio Endowment Inc Fdba Kxpr Kxjz Endowment Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 funders by total. 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
CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 53% · 2019 58% · 2020 62% · 2021 66% · 2022 51% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 28 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- California State University Sacramento · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC?
- CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,271,188 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($6,701,923). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $13,271,188 in grants to CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $6,701,923 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC 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.
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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 63 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