Tennessee · Nonprofit
CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,545,447 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,037,674). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $963k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $591k
What Cumberland Communities Communications Corporation does
Mission
Create & provide content to promote the cultural heritage of east tennessee & the southern appalachian region by entertaining & educating audiences globally with original programs showcasing live radio performance, underrepresented arts, & emerging and local talent.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides original radio programming to showcase live radio performances, underrepresented arts, and emerging and local talent to promote the cultural heritage of east tennessee and the southern appalachian region by entertaining and educating audiences.
$512,057 spent$24,472 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $512,057.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $317k to $530k (+67%).
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 24% · 2018 16% · 2019 33% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 38% · 2023 34% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $114k → $219k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION’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
CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 73% · 2019 67% · 2020 74% · 2021 81% · 2022 56% · 2023 40% — 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
38% of CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION: 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 CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION?
- CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,545,447 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,037,674). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,545,447 in grants to CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,674 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing