New York · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,009 to it, the largest being THE NIELSEN FOUNDATION INC ($320,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $743k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What International Radio and Television Society Foundation Inc does
Mission
The irts foundation is a charity dedicated to building future media leaders. We bring together the wisdom and power of today's leaders to educate, train, and provide access to the next generation of media and communication professionals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Summer fellowship programthe irts summer fellowship program enables competitively selected students from across the nation to experience the realities of working in the media industry. The nine-week expense-paid opportunity begins with a one-week comprehensive orientation that includes corporate visits, field trips, panels, networking sessions, and a major industry event. Fellows then move on to an eight-week, paid internship. Educational seminars, career counseling, and mentoring are provided throughout the summer. In 2024, fellows received transportation to and from new york, accommodations for the duration of the program, an orientation week stipend, and a paid internship at a media company.
$529,759 spentof which $229,280 as grants59% of program spendingMulticultural career workshopsince 1983, the annual two-day irts multicultural career workshop has helped students and recent graduates with opportunities in our industry, as well as by introducing them to recruiters from top companies. More than 156 students were selected from across the nation to receive a full day of orientation, before having an opportunity to interview for jobs and/or internships with recruiters from broadcasting, cable, advertising, publishing, digital and ancillary media companies.
$201,553 spent22% of program spendingFaculty seminarirts faculty seminars provide a forum for university educators and career service professionals from across the nation to meet with top media professionals in order to understand the sweeping changes taking place in our industry, as well as where the greatest opportunities exist for their students. This allows educators to teach in a more timely and relevant way. For more than five decades these seminars have provided a level playing field where professors from schools that vary in size, wealth, reputation, and approach all have an opportunity to hear from those at the forefront of our industry. The theme of the 2024 program was media insiders: today's opportunities and tomorrow's challenges.
$65,653 spent7% of program spendingThroughout the year, irts provides complimentary career assistance in different forms, including ongoing counseling and mentoring to its graduates, advice to visiting (or remote) groups of students, an annual networking alumni event, exchanges via dedicated alumni social media groups, and more.
$103,221 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $900,186.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+22%).
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 10% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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. 4 of the last 8 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
Marianne Gambelli
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $43k → $114k.
6 of 13 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $243k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Library of American Broadcasting Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC’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
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 85% · 2020 58% · 2021 69% · 2022 48% · 2023 44% — 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
75% of INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $368k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC?
- INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $743,009 to it, the largest being THE NIELSEN FOUNDATION INC ($320,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $743,009 in grants to INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC?
- THE NIELSEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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