Utah · Nonprofit
Community Wireless of Park City
Community Wireless of Park City (Utah) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,710,825 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($2,152,719). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Community Wireless of Park City does
Mission
Kpcw's mission is to serve summit and wasatch counties with local news, information, entertainment, and emergency alerts through its broadcast signal and digital media platforms. The station is also committed to provide its communication abilities to help other nonprofit organizations in our community succeed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kpcw is the only non-profit source of daily local news for residents and visitors across summit and wasatch counties. As our region has grown so has kpcw, broadcasting from the spencer f. Eccles broadcast center in park city via three frequencies, 91.7 fm, 88.1 fm and 91.9 fm along with 24/7 digital streaming on our website and mobile app. Beyond being simply an npr affiliate, kpcw strives to be an anchor in our community that listens deeply, surfaces untold stories, presents fact-based information that builds awareness, empathy, and engagement among the diverse communities we serve. Kpcw dedicates 27 hours per week to in-depth local news and interviews with city and county leaders, public health officials, local school boards, and non-profits serving the community. (continued on schedule o)
$980,151 spent$159,869 earned by the program68% of program spendingEach week, kpcw brings listeners more than 80 hours of intentionally eclectic music. Every friday, we feature twelve new songs in the kpcw music library at the top of every hour. Selected tracks are new releases by favorite or newly emerging artists or deep cuts carefully selected to suit our eclectic sound. Annually, we purchase more than 1,000 songs to add to our play list. For context, most commercial radio stations play the same 500 songs repeatedly throughout the year based primarily on chart performance. Our song library on average features some 15,000 tracks, including numerous local artists and bands and an ever-expanding playlist of contemporary/new music, rock, blues, reggae, folk and world music.
$209,556 spent$112,165 earned by the program15% of program spendingIn addition to airing local, national, and international news, kpcw is committed to educating and informing listeners with our own locally-produced public affairs shows. These feature 2-3 interviews per show and air monday through friday from 9:00 am - 10:00 am, with a focus on business and finance (mountain money), the environment (this green earth), healthy living (the mountain life), science and technology (cool science radio) and our newest show called the community campfire featuring human interest stories & local music. Our public affair shows feature judicial officials, financial advocates, educators, doctors and public health experts, law enforcement officers, legal mediators, community outreach specialists as well as the people and musicians that make the wasatch back the amazing place it is. On friday and saturday nights, kpcw airs jazz music in conjunction with npr's jazz night in america. On sunday evenings kpcw airs alt latino. (continued on schedule o)
$207,300 spent$80,610 earned by the program14% of program spendingA key pillar of kpcw's mission is to serve as an umbrella organization for nonprofits across summit and wasatch counties. We offer nonprofit organizations discounted underwriting at 20% below commerical rates, and we encourage them to let us know when they have news and upcoming events we should be communicating to our audience. Beyond interviewing these organziations for local news stories and on our public affairs shows, nonprofits can post event details, programming updates, and volunteer opportunities at no charge on the kpcw community calendar. Our djs read nearly 12,000 of these calendar posts as public service announcements (psas) each year, totaling more than $300,000 in free airtime value for area nonprofits annually and we offer free underwriting credit to nonprofits that join us for our biannual pledge drives, saving them critical marketing expenditures as they work to communicate with the constituencies they serve. In fiscal year 2025, kpcw awarded nearly $80,000 in free underwriting credits as our way of thanking local nonprofits for joining us for our 2025 pledge drives.
$47,459 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,444,466.
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 $2.5M to $3.7M (+49%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 12% · 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 10% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of Community Wireless of Park City’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.
Board chair
Robert Holmes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $206k → $446k.
14 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $281k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Park City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Wireless of Park City raised.
From the IRS filings of Community Wireless of Park City’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 Wireless of Park City leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 Wireless of Park City.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 70% · 2019 68% · 2020 58% · 2021 69% · 2022 54% · 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
54% of Community Wireless of Park City's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 Wireless of Park City draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $756k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Wireless of Park City holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Wireless of Park City
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Wireless of Park City: 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 Community Wireless of Park City?
- Community Wireless of Park City (Utah) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,710,825 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($2,152,719). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Wireless of Park City have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,710,825 in grants to Community Wireless of Park City, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Wireless of Park City?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $2,152,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Wireless of Park City find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 48 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