Minnesota · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM
CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $778,492 to it, the largest being ROOTED PHILANTHROPIC ($240,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $349k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $778k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Center for Broadcast Journalism does
Mission
Center for Broadcast Journalism's mission is to mobilize the next generation to advance representation in media. We make media accessible to early career journalists by removing barriers through education, paid internships, and employment opportunities, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in journalism. While we focus our work on black and brown aspiring journalists, our goal is to balance racial representation in media in minnesota and our surrounding region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, the Center for Broadcast Journalism expanded its impact by training and mentoring a new cohort of young journalists and radio announcers with several participants securing jobs and scholarships in the field and publishing over 150 stories on-air and online. To strengthen audience research and development, we curated 7th street live, which had over 1700 participants and served as a neighborhood gathering that celebrated our signal's community while supporting local artists and businesses.
$80,685 spent32% of program spendingCbj acquired the fcc license for a low power fm radio station in st. Paul's east side (weqy power104.7fm), built out a new, state of the art studio, and relaunched the station under a new brand in september 2023. It created local programming, broadcast radio stories reported by the newsroom, and provided free/low-cost opportunities for local businesses to advertise their services. The radio station serves an area with a population of approximately 30,000.
$126,604 spent$5,907 earned by the program50% of program spendingCbj launched its adult education program, offering evening classes in skills related to journalism (news writing, interviewing skills, audio recording, and visual storytelling). Cbj offered four classes in the fall of 2024, serving 25 students.
$43,999 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $251,288.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $189k to $170k (−10%).
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.
98% of CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $188k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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
63% of CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k 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
CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM: 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 CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM?
- CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $778,492 to it, the largest being ROOTED PHILANTHROPIC ($240,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $778,492 in grants to CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM?
- ROOTED PHILANTHROPIC is the largest funder on record, with $240,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing