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KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,152 to it, the largest being HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ($151,120). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $337k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $261k
- Net assets
- $270k
What Kfug Community Radio Inc a Non- Profit Public Benefit Corporation does
Mission
KFUG Community Radio is a non-profit low-power FM (LPFM) radio station with a Youth Media Program that provides entertainment and produces local news programming for the educational benefit of adults, children and families residing in Del Norte County and Adjacent Tribal Lands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
2025 Was a year filled with turmoil. As the year started cash flow was low and much of our staff was let go. At the same time an agreement to bring on a full-time editor was reached. The director/president/founder of the organization abruptly resigned in June. The board was rearranged. The remaining employee board members left the board. The programs that were running changed format and by the end of 2025 our station and news programs had an entirely different structure. The new board director/president took over station management as a part time volunteer and in 2026 became a full-time employee. The news editor and director/president were keeping things moving. In 2026 additional funding has been arranged and we have rehired some of the reports part time and things are looking up.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Redwood Voice Youth Media: Professional and financial support to develop, organize, operate, and administer Redwood Voice Youth Media, which employs and instructs youth aged 16-24 as journalists producing web-based media and broadcast news. They produce a full hour news broadcast 5 days per week which airs twice a day and is also posted on YouTube and other social media. Written articles are posted to their website. This program benefits youth, students and their families and all residents of Del Norte County and Adjacent Tribal Lands. Programming shifted midyear from regular news broadcasts over the air to posting on YouTube and FaceBook. In addition, three youth summer programs were incorporated into the programming: 1. How Did We Get Here? - a radio adaptation and documentary of the graphic novel of the same name that explores local history in Del Norte County and Adjacent Tribal Lands. 2. Resilient DNATL Youth Podcast - in coordination with CA Health Collaborative this program gave youth a hands-on learning experience of making podcasts with the focus on community mental health problems and solutions. 3. Teen Awareness Combating Overdose Community Advocacy Training (TACOCAT) - this program in coordination with Klamath Promise Neighborhood Summer Bridge Program through the Yurok Tribe Education Department provided similar learning experiences for youth creating harm reduction media campaigns.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Redwood Voice Youth Media: Professional and financial support to develop, organize, operate, and administer Redwood Voice Youth Media, which employed and instructed youth aged 16-24 as journalists producing web-based media and broadcast news. They produced full hour news broadcasts, podcasts, media and written news articles posted on the website, YouTube, FaceBook and other social media. Youth also created a radio adaptation of a historical graphic novel of the local area; created podcasts focusing on mental health problems and solutions; and created media campaigns focused on teen awareness to combat overdosing. This program benefits youth, students and their families and all residents of Del Norte County and Adjacent Tribal Lands.
$185,849 spent$256,680 earned by the program83% of program spendingKFUG Community Radio is a non-profit low-power FM (LPFM) radio station that provided news, educational and entertainment programming that benefit adults and children residing in Del Norte County and Adjacent Tribal Lands. KFUG develops, organizes, operates, and administers a community-based broadcast radio station, a web presence and social media for the educational benefit of adults and children living in Del Norte County.
$38,453 spent$48,128 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,302.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $74k to $146k (+97%).
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.
94% of KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $25k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’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
KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 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
77% of KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $60k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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.
Against its field
KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
- KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,152 to it, the largest being HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ($151,120). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $261,152 in grants to KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
- HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $151,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KFUG COMMUNITY RADIO INC A NON- PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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