Colorado · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO
COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,705,730 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($3,280,112). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Community Radio for Northern Colorado does
Mission
Community Radio for Northern Colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. Crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services - kunc, an npr-affiliated news and information public radio station and the colorado sound, a locally hosted music discovery public radio station. In addition, crnc has an active digital media presence for both of its content services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming & production: crnc provides programming that strengthens community, informs, inspires and entertains through its public radio stations, kunc and the colorado sound. Kunc presents news and information through curation of programming from a variety of sources, including npr. Kunc provides a blend of international, national, and regional news to the community. Crnc maintains an award-winning news department that is dedicated to providing quality journalism at a regional level. The colorado sound is a music discovery public radio station appealing to curious music listeners who appreciate various genres and have a love for learning about music. The colorado sound strives to be an advocate for colorado musicians and the colorado music scene.
$3,778,187 spent$1,115,482 earned by the program87% of program spendingBroadcasting: crnc transmits its programs through a vast network of stations and translators in northern colorado with a population base of over two million and its currently listened to by over 260,000 listeners along the front range, in the northern plains, and in the mountain communities. The front range signal is kunc (91.5 fm) and the colorado sound is (105.5 fm). Coverage is supplemented by 4 stations and 13 translators, replicationg the kunc or colorado sound programming signals. These signals are located in various communities including steamboat springs, breckenridge, estes park, sterling and boulder. Crnc continually strives to improve our service area by increasing our broadcasting capabilities. Crnc also offers streaming of its programming through the website and digital apps.
$556,819 spent13% of program spendingProgramming information & special events: crnc is dedicated to strengthening the community. Crnc engages with the community to understand the needs and wants of the community for public media programming and to inform the community of our program services. Crnc partners with numerous community organizations to promote and sponsor events within northern colorado. Crnc maintains websites at kunc.org and coloradosound.org to provide easy access to program information and programming.
$746 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,335,752.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.3M to $8.2M (+12%).
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 7% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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
Tammy Terwelp
CEO & president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $445k → $901k.
17 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 52% · 2020 49% · 2021 53% · 2022 37% · 2023 36% — 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
46% of COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO?
- COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO (Colorado) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,705,730 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($3,280,112). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $6,705,730 in grants to COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $3,280,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 60 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