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FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC

FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,539,496 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,787,570). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.1M
Funders on record
62
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$5.6M
36/62 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Friends of Mvyradio Inc does

Mission

Wmvy's goal is to serve the communities of martha's vineyard and cape cod and to reflect the voice and spirit of those who live here, through the station's programming and personalities. Mvy works hard to provide the community with reliable, current information surrounding basic needs such as weather, tides, sea conditions, ferry and airline service, school closings, traffic information, emergency management messages and other vital services. The station provides local and national news and broadcasts public service announcements for local nonprofit organizations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The station produces several locally-focused feature programs. "the mvyradio person of the week" is a 3 minute first person portrait of a local individual who is creating a community benefit. We spotlight over 50 individuals each year. On sunday mornings, we air a 30 minute "news magazine" format program called "the vineyard current." this program has won a dozen massachusetts broadcasters association awards. The program begins with a weekly news round-up featuring reporters from the vineyard gazette, followed by profiles of people and organizations that make martha's vineyard tick. This show has a companion program called "the cape cod current" which follows a similar format, instead focusing on cape cod residents and organizations. Through these programs, hundreds of local individuals and organizations are given a voice on the air. In the summer, we have a 10-week limited podcast series, "vineyard happenings" which provides event information and coverage aimed at the island's summer community of african-american visitors. And we helped relaunch "shed" a podcast series that discusses race with vineyard-connected individuals. To cover local music, we have several programming…

    $1,203,591 spent$708,629 earned by the program
    83% of program spending
  2. Broadcasting: wmvy can be heard on 88.7 fm on martha's vineyard and 96.5 fm in newport. Wmvy can also be heard on a variety of streaming devices.

    $250,056 spent
    17% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,453,647.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 94 ($1.3M) Expenses 107 ($1.3M) Net assets 95 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 171 ($2.3M) Expenses 107 ($1.3M) Net assets 179 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 197 ($2.7M) Expenses 111 ($1.4M) Net assets 291 ($3.5M)2021 Revenue 211 ($2.9M) Expenses 142 ($1.7M) Net assets 387 ($4.6M)2022 Revenue 151 ($2.1M) Expenses 165 ($2.0M) Net assets 392 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 175 ($2.4M) Expenses 177 ($2.2M) Net assets 412 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 178 ($2.4M) Expenses 187 ($2.3M) Net assets 426 ($5.1M)2025 Revenue 229 ($3.1M) Expenses 214 ($2.6M) Net assets 471 ($5.6M)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (214)Net assets (471)Peer revenue range

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 $2.9M to $4.7M (+63%).

$1.3M
$1.2M
$2.9M
$4.7M
$5.7M
$5.8M
$6.0M
$5.7M
$6.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$151k
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−$22k
’18
$1.0M
’19
$1.3M
’20
$1.1M
’21
$58k
’22
$242k
’23
$167k
’24
$528k
’25
7.6
months of
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

Paul J Finn

Executive director

Board chair

James Attwood

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151818232324252624
Joined·+7+1+5+3+2+5+2+0
No longer listed·41031412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $168k → $513k.

14 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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

FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC.

51%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 74% · 2019 52% · 2020 32% · 2021 65% · 2022 59% · 2023 41% — 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

47% of FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 15 states in all.

ME
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.

State$28k
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24
25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$28k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 12%Fundraising 32%

Governance

24
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

MA
RI
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC?
FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,539,496 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,787,570). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC have?
IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $3,539,496 in grants to FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,787,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 62 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