Nevada · Nonprofit
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO (Nevada) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,496,878 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($4,396,227). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Nevada Public Radio does
Mission
Nevada Public Radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nevada Public Radio (nvpr) is a public broadcasting network comprised of urban and rural community stations serving nevada, california and arizona; knpr, kcnv, klnr, ktph, kwpr, klkr, and kvnv, along with a system of 8 translators. Nvpr's service in analog and hd includes transmission equipment and engineering and technical services as they relate to broadcasting operations and delivery of digital/online content. Nvpr acquires national and international information programming from producers including npr, public radio international and american public media. The flagship stations for the network are las vegas' first and only npr affiliate: news 88.9 fm knpr and a full-time classical service at classical 89.7 kcnv fm.
$2,380,498 spent82% of program spendingNvpr is the publisher of the city regional magazine, desert companion, with an audited bi-monthly readership in excess of 160,000. On air, online and print activities are unduplicated in our region in their public service focus. Nvpr is investing in meeting our audiences where they are as media habits shift to digital delivery, and as important, creating content that is relevant to a more diverse population. Nvpr's media output demonstrates a "better than industry" benchmark in reaching non-white audiences. A goal we seek to maintain and exceed to better reflect the communities we serve. Desert companion hosts an annual photography contest which attracts more than 1,500 entries annually.
$521,532 spent$8,975 earned by the program18% of program spendingNvpr's public media services play a vital role in the community life of our region. We elevate awareness and empower our listeners to respond to and engage with our shared community by connecting our listeners with its civic, socioeconomic, cultural and educational needs. For example, an annual partnership with three square food bank has resulted in hundreds of thousands of meals donated in lieu of traditional public radio thank you gifts. Nvpr donates more than $500,000 of airtime annually directly to civic, social service and cultural not-for-profit entities. Nvpr websites are a go to source.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,902,030.
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 $7.6M to $9.5M (+25%).
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% · 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 16% · 2021 43% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO’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. 5 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
Nehme E Abouzeid
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $552k → $477k.
16 of 69 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 NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 84% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 86% · 2022 56% · 2023 36% — 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
47% of NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO'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
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NEVADA 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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: 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 NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO?
- NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO (Nevada) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,496,878 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($4,396,227). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $6,496,878 in grants to NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $4,396,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 69 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