Ohio · Nonprofit
MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC
MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,161,394 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,665,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Miami Valley Public Media Inc does
Mission
The mission of wyso is to give a voice to our community, our nation and our world with independent news, music and storytelling.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providing content and programming in the areas of education, art, drama, music, culture, history, science, news, current events, and other matters of public interest to the dayton, ohio and greater miami valley region, through noncommercial public radio, internet, print, and other forms of communication services, both direct and interactive.
$3,713,742 spentof which $490,005 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,713,742.
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 2019 to 2020, from $373k to $5.4M (+1359%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA 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. 3 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey Cox
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $50k → $3.3M.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 63% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 2023 87% — 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
57% of MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA 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 MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC?
- MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,161,394 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,665,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $10,161,394 in grants to MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,665,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 32 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