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HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY

HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,137 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$43k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$43k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Heterodyne Broadcasting Company does

Mission

To operate and promote a community based radio station. Approximately 100,000 persons benefited.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Operating a community based radio station for the benefit of Southern Illinois.

    $43,835 spentof which $5,300 as grants
    50% of program spending
  2. Promoting the community based radio. Approximately 100,000 persons benefited.

    $43,835 spentof which $5,300 as grants
    50% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,670.

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 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2021 Revenue 76 ($54k) Expenses 84 ($58k) Net assets 72 ($24k)2022 Revenue 77 ($55k) Expenses 70 ($49k) Net assets 89 ($29k)2023 Revenue 85 ($60k) Expenses 64 ($45k) Net assets 127 ($42k)2024 Revenue 78 ($55k) Expenses 82 ($57k) Net assets 135 ($45k)2025 Revenue 60 ($43k) Expenses 63 ($44k) Net assets 131 ($43k)
201720212022202320242025
Revenue (60)Expenses (63)Net assets (131)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 2022 to 2023, from $113k to $126k (+11%).

$114k
$110k
$113k
$126k
$125k
$123k
201720212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$880
’17
−$5k
’21
$6k
’22
$16k
’23
−$2k
’24
−$1k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $32 → $38.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY’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

HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY?
HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,137 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,137 in grants to HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY?
ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC 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 HETERODYNE BROADCASTING COMPANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2 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