California · Nonprofit
ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION
ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,756 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($39,591). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $206k
What Erisat-Eritrean Satellite Television does
Mission
Erisats mission is to provide trusted, responsible, and impartial journalism that informs, engages, entertains and empowers eritreas diverse communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Erisat-Eritrean Satellite Television continued to expand its broadcast services to eritrea in five languages: afar, arabic, blin and tigringna. There are about 17 different variety of programs in tigringna including news, entertainment, education, and current affairs. The afar and arabic programs also have news and current affairs, children program. The latest addition the blin language program has a variety of programs in its weekly program. Erisat continues to recruit more volunteer staff as they are the main human resource base. The organization also contracts freelancers as needed. We continue to fundraise from individual donors as well as applying for grants.
$37,830 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,830.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $334k to $206k (−38%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $13 → $72k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION’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
ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION
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.
Public support
100%
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 ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION: 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 ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION?
- ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,756 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($39,591). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $72,756 in grants to ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION.
- Who is the largest funder of ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,591 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERISAT-ERITREAN SATELLITE TELEVISION 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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