New York · Nonprofit
DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC
DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 246 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,055,913 to it, the largest being KAPHAN FOUNDATION ($2,513,102). 157 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 246
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Democracy Now Productions Inc does
Mission
Democracy now productions, inc. Produces a daily, national, listener-sponsored / non-commercial public radio and television news show. Democracy now productions, inc. Fulfills its mission by training journalist interns and community video producers in the art of civic journalism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To promote democracy by providing a daily, national, listener sponsored/non-commercial public radio and television news shows. Democracy now productions, inc. Has pioneered a unique multi-media collaboration involving non-profit community radio, the internet, satellite and cable television. Democracy now productions, inc. Also provides training to journalist interns and community video producers in the art of civic journalism.
$8,104,848 spent$84,710 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,104,848.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $32M to $36M (+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.
93% of DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Julie Crosby
Executive director
Board chair
Karen Ranucci
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 85 funders to 83 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $2.6M.
44 of 246 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 246 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
DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
39% 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 DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 14% · 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% — 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
45% of DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: 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 DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC?
- DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 246 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,055,913 to it, the largest being KAPHAN FOUNDATION ($2,513,102). 157 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 246 organizations giving $25,055,913 in grants to DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC, 157 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC?
- KAPHAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,513,102 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 246 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