Louisiana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC
FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,401,730 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($3,058,881). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Friends of Wwoz Inc does
Mission
Friends of wwoz, inc. Operates a noncommerical, educational radio station which was licensed to operate by the federal communications commission on october 29, 1981. The station's call letters are wwoz-fm the mission of the station is to celebrate [cont'd on sch o] the cultural diversity of new orleans and its surrounding regions through music and information. The station is funded mainly by federal and state grants, support from the new orleans jazz and heritage foundation, community fundraising and underwriting contributions. The broadcast hours of the radio station were 8,754 for 2025.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Friends of wwoz, inc. Operates a noncommerical, educational radio station which was licensed to operate by the federal commmunications commission on october 29, 1981. The station's call letters are wwoz-fm the mission of the station is to celebrate the cultural diversity of new orleans and its surrounding regions through music and information. The station is funded mainly by federal and state grants, support from the new orleans jazz and heritage foundation, community fundraising and underwriting contributions. The broadcast hours of the radio station were 8,754 for 2025.
$2,684,003 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,684,003.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.5M to $7.8M (+43%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 13% · 2021 20% · 2022 9% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC’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. 1 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $337k → $487k.
9 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.6M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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 WWOZ INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 WWOZ INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 89% · 2019 80% · 2020 75% · 2021 81% · 2022 45% · 2023 51% — 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
38% of FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF WWOZ 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC?
- FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,401,730 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($3,058,881). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $4,401,730 in grants to FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $3,058,881 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 64 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