Missouri · Nonprofit
LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL
LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,086 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($201,086). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $556k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $419k
What League of Volunteer Enthusiasts of Community Radio Stl does
Mission
To secure and promote community radio in the St. Louis area, and to support the volunteers who operate the station.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach: We continued to produce our weekly newsletter, press releases and regular social media posts. Expanded opromotion of our open board meetings and held a larger public meeting. We worked with other community members to form a coalition to save community radio in St. Louis. We held several fundraising events including our Music & More event in December, a bluegrass music concert, Information booths at local festivals, and continuted our DJ spins in the community.
$7,762 spent$20,644 earned by the program4% of program spendingMembership: 2025 We began the year with 51 members and ended the year with 85. This was the second year we collected dues
$0 spent$1,700 earned by the program0% of program spendingAdvocacy. We continued to pursue legal challenges to the Double Helix corporation selling their assets and siliencing and terminating their membership from, we continued to raise funds to stop that sale. When that proved unsucessful, we pivoted to starting a new community radio station (which launched in 2026). We continue to advocate for volunteers and and the community at large to produce and sustain community media.
$196,403 spent$485,886 earned by the program96% of program spendingOther program services (describe in Schedule O). We raised money through donations. Our online campaigns continued as well as direct donations to our organization. The major expenses were processing fees from financial institutions and fundraising platforms (included in 4c).
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $204,165.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $80k to $419k (+421%).
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.
90% of LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL.
“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
90% of LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL 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 LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL?
- LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,086 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($201,086). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $241,086 in grants to LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $201,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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