Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC
IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC (Iowa) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,005,225 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($3,464,397). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 103
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Iowa Public Radio Inc does
Mission
Iowa Public Radio connects you to news music information and ideas that shape your world every day.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Iowa Public Radio IPR operates a statewide public radio network with a total of 27 stations serving more than 205,000 listeners with news alternative music and classical music - and thousands more through our podcasts website newsletters and apps. IPRs combined radio groups serve rural and urban Iowa touching all of Iowas 99 counties. IPR news and talk shows inform with reporting that is balanced intelligent respectful and intriguing. IPR hosts two locally produced talk shows including Talk of Iowa which offers a mix of regular guests newsmakers and interesting Iowans to talk about art culture humanities and lifestyle in Iowa. River to River focuses on news issues and events in the State of Iowa.
$5,807,042 spent$82,025 earned by the program81% of program spendingIPR music programs enrich lives by bringing the best of classical performances to a broader audience and showcasing emerging artists on Iowas music scene. IPRs Classical service enriches the cultural life of Iowans and supports Iowas cultural institutions by extending their reach. IPRs Studio One service is Iowas premier resource for essential new music. IPR is an important player in Iowas music scene and an essential partner for organizations and institutions.
$784,085 spent11% of program spendingIPR Digital offers digital news and music content.
$598,217 spent$115,779 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,189,344.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $5.1M to $12M (+136%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Myrna Johnson
Executive Director
Board chair
Nora Everett
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $132k → $1.9M.
18 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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
IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 67% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC has grown faster than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
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.
Organizations like IOWA PUBLIC RADIO 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: 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 IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC?
- IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC (Iowa) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,005,225 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($3,464,397). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $8,005,225 in grants to IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $3,464,397 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 103 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing