Kentucky · Nonprofit
KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC
KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,906,913 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($5,012,154). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Kentucky Public Radio Inc does
Mission
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Louisville public media (lpm) operates three noncommercial radio stations: 89.3 wfpl news louisville, 90.5 wuol classical louisville, and 91.9 wfpk music louisville: along with the kentucky center for investigative reporting (kycir), collectively reaching over 322,400 monthly broadcast listeners and 260,157 unique monthly web visitors across greater louisville, kentucky, and southern indiana. Lpm provides independent, nonpartisan civic journalism including investigative reporting, statewide voter guides, legislative session coverage, and community reporting on topics such as public housing, police reform, education, arts and culture, environmental health, and government transparency. Lpm also advances arts and culture in the region through free and accessible programming including over 50 hosted events, the wfpk waterfront wednesday outdoor concert series drawing over 65,000 attendees, classical music rebroadcasts, and youth music education initiatives reaching tens of thousands of students in local schools and community centers. Lpm has also expanded its regional journalism footprint as lead station for both the association of kentucky public radio stations and the newly formed…
$6,065,825 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,065,825.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.0M to $7.1M (−21%).
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 2% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO 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. 8 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.
Board chair
Abby Shue
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $471k → $1.6M.
12 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $3.5M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 91% · 2019 75% · 2020 74% · 2021 39% · 2022 35% · 2023 43% — 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
55% of KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $853k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 46 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KENTUCKY 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 Kentucky
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
95%
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 KENTUCKY 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 KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC?
- KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,906,913 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($5,012,154). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $8,906,913 in grants to KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $5,012,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 88 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