Texas · Nonprofit
EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS
EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,183,999 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,372,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Educational Radio Foundation of East Texas does
Mission
Educational broadcasting
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We broadcast the good news of jesus christ via broadcast frequencies and digital media through several music programming formats featuring christian music and bible teaching designed to inspire, educate and encourage. Kvne broadcasts contemporary christian music, lift worship invites people to worship the lord through praise music and fuzion broadcasts christian music in spanish, bringing hope and encouragement to hispanics across east texas and around the world. On-air radio stations serve approximately 225,000 people in east texas, new mexico and northwest louisiana and over 570,000 unique streamers. Additionally, involved in communities served through various local ministries with shoe drives, diaper drives and assisting local families during our christmas encouragment program.
$3,275,817 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,275,817.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $17M (+42%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Chief executive
Troy Kriechbaum
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $6k → $472k.
11 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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 RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 66% — 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
80% of EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
88% of EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS'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 $373k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% 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 EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS?
- EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,183,999 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,372,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,183,999 in grants to EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,372,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 18 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