California · Nonprofit
GOOD NEWS RADIO
GOOD NEWS RADIO (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,996 to it, the largest being WARNE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CO FIRST FOUNDATION BANK ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Good News Radio does
Mission
Good News Radio is a ministry that draws people closer to god by providing encouragement, edifying believers and building community through christian music, mission outreach, and events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During the fiscal year, our organization continued to diligently pursue our mission and made valuable contributions to our listeners and community. These accomplishments include but are not limited to:-143,569 average weekly cumulative audience in nielsen's riverside-san bernardino (metro survey area)-online stream main channel 122,035 aggregate tuning hours per month-online stream christmas channel 14,742 aggregate tuning hours per month-encouraging thought (daily scripture or uplifting quotation) available to website visitors, social network in followers, and approximately 7,300 email subscribers daily-community engagement included the believe walk, bringing awareness about cancer and screening -a ministry partnership with city mission ministries brought awareness and opportunity for listener engagement in support of members of the community who are food insecure. Through an on-air fundraiser, listeners donated $63,209 to this cause.
$1,227,516 spentof which $15,500 as grants$358,408 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,227,516.
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.
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 $6.9M to $8.7M (+27%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
John Thomas
President/chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $11k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 GOOD NEWS RADIO’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
GOOD NEWS RADIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 GOOD NEWS RADIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 64% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
75% of GOOD NEWS RADIO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Organizations like GOOD NEWS RADIO
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 GOOD NEWS RADIO: 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 GOOD NEWS RADIO?
- GOOD NEWS RADIO (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,996 to it, the largest being WARNE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CO FIRST FOUNDATION BANK ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOOD NEWS RADIO have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $27,996 in grants to GOOD NEWS RADIO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD NEWS RADIO?
- WARNE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION CO FIRST FOUNDATION BANK is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD NEWS RADIO 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 6 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