California · Nonprofit
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 123 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,127,530 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($26,048,450). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $261M
- Funders on record
- 123
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $1.1B
What Educational Media Foundation does
Mission
Create and distribute quality and compelling media that inspires and encourages people to have a meaningful relationship with jesus christ through k-love radio network; air1 radio network; wta media, llc (wta); accessmore podcasting; k-love ondemand; k-love books; and k-love films. Educational Media Foundation (emf) media channels include radio, film, literature, podcasting, and digital content. Emf has fulfilled its educational and religious mission primarily through radio broadcasting, while introducing other media (as its name connotes) over time. In 2024, emf continued to invest in faith-based book publishing, marketing, and distribution through emf publishing, llc. Emf will continue to fulfill its educational and religious purposes primarily through terrestrial radio, streaming, podcasting, publishing, and video, while exploring new media opportunities to share the gospel of jesus.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emf owns and/or manages multiple media channels including, but not limited to, non-commercial religious and educational radio broadcasting; film and video production, marketing, and distribution; live events; literature; streaming; podcasting, and other digital media.
$110,229,321 spent$12,116,989 earned by the program95% of program spendingPastoral care department of emf provides spiritual support to the organization's listening audience, and to local communities and churches by connecting callers to ministry resources in their areas. The pastoral care department offers biblically based counseling and prayer, primarily via telephone, from trained pastors and pastoral care team members. The pastoral care team is available to take live listener calls throughout the day and pastors are on call (24-7) should crisis support and intervention be necessary. In addition, listeners are encouraged to leave their prayer requests on the klove.com and air1.com websites or via emf's digital apps. The pastoral care department and the staff of emf pray for these requests daily.
$4,723,106 spent4% of program spendingCrisis response educational training equips and supports first and second responder networks proactively through training and preparedness, and reactively during disaster recovery community responses through resiliency interventions. These services are offered to (but not limited to) first responders (police, fire), secondary responders (medical health professionals), and community chaplains. The classes are provided at no charge and teach the basics of critical incident stress management (cism). This program was developed as an outgrowth of our pastoral ministry and local outreach.
$330,496 spent0% of program spendingThe dare ii dream educational school assembly program addresses the ongoing challenges facing the youth of today. The religiously neutral and biblically-based presentation educates kids that their choices today will impact their lives tomorrow. Students are encouraged to surround themselves with positive influences, resist negative peer pressures, and to move forward by staying true to the dreams and goals placed on their hearts. This educational service is offered at no charge to the school and serves the community under the umbrella of the air1 network. This program was developed as an outgrowth of our pastoral ministry and local outreach.
$322,412 spent0% of program spendingEmf provided grants to exempt organizations which educate, support, and promote christian evangelism, edification, and values.
$549,125 spentof which $549,125 as grants0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $116,154,460.
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 2021 to 2022, from $932M to $1.0B (+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.
86% of EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Donna Ecton
Chairman (end 3/1/24)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $9.1M.
45 of 123 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 123 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
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 57% · 2019 40% · 2020 59% · 2021 83% · 2022 80% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION'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
96% of EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside California, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 54 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 54 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- Crisis Response LLC · disregarded
- Dare II Dream LLC · disregarded
- Emf Property Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Emf Publishing LLC · disregarded
- Emf Tn Property Holdings LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION?
- EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 123 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,127,530 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($26,048,450). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 123 organizations giving $40,127,530 in grants to EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,048,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 123 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