Colorado · Nonprofit
KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO
KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO (Colorado) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,175,630 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($2,907,229). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Kute Inc Dba Ksut Public Radio does
Mission
Kute operates as a public broadcasting organization that serves the four states of the four corners region through a network of eight federal communications commission (fcc) licensed transmitters and five fcc licensed translators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kute operates a non-commercial, educational radio station which promotes a community interest and a cultural outlet for the southern ute indian tribe and serves as a full service public radio station in the four corners area.
$389,371 spent$588,820 earned by the program30% of program spendingKsut annually holds a festival showcasing a wide range of musicians to enrich the community with diveristy and culture.
$908,533 spent$141,298 earned by the program70% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,297,904.
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 2017 to 2018, from $796k to $2.7M (+239%).
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 21% · 2018 8% · 2019 16% · 2020 34% · 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 21% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Tami Graham
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $240k → $410k.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 80% · 2019 66% · 2020 73% · 2021 75% · 2022 57% · 2023 63% — 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
50% of KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Southern Ute Indian Tribe · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO?
- KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO (Colorado) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,175,630 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($2,907,229). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $4,175,630 in grants to KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $2,907,229 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 36 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