New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO (New York) receives grants from 925 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,771,239 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($29,407,190). 619 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85M
- Funders on record
- 925
- Grants received
- $101M
- Net assets
- $74M
What New York Public Radio does
Mission
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming: New York Public Radio consists of wnyc am 820, wnyc fm 93.9, www.wnyc.org, wnjt fm 88.1, wnjp fm 88.5, wnjy fm 89.3, wnjo fm 90.3, www.njpr.org, wqxr 105.9 fm, www.wqxr.org, www.wqxw.org, www.gothamist.com, and the jerome l. Greene performance space. Wnyc and wqxr are among the country's leading public radio stations. Established in 1924 as a municipal radio station and operated as such for 75 years, New York Public Radio now exists as an independent, not-for-profit organization with a vibrant board of trustees. For more information, see schedule o.
$43,947,529 spent$9,787,494 earned by the program81% of program spendingTechnical operations: for the distribution and support of programming on wnyc am, wnyc fm, www.wnyc.org, wnjt fm, wnjp fm, wnjy fm, wnjo fm, www.njpr.org, wqxr fm, www.wqxr.org, wqxw fm, and the jerome l. Greene performance space. Engineering of all radio, digital and live performance programming and information technology for the entire ny public radio organization.
$7,203,620 spent13% of program spendingMarketing support services: New York Public Radio's marketing efforts promote the unique programming and events produced by wnyc and wqxr, including news, wnyc studios, cultural and music radio programming, original online content, and a schedule of live events in the jerome l. Greene performance space.
$3,095,121 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,246,270.
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 2020 to 2021, from $128M to $144M (+12%).
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 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lafontaine Olvier
President & CEO/trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 259 funders to 352 funders, grant income rose $6.7M → $12M.
41 of 925 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.1M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 925 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
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 55% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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
46% of NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO's funding base is broadening — from 259 funders to 352 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record — $1.1M federal, $1.5M state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$750k
- National Endowment for the Arts$330k
- NJ$1.5M
- OK$5k
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 NEW YORK 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW YORK 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO?
- NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO (New York) receives grants from 925 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,771,239 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($29,407,190). 619 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO have?
- IRS filings report 925 organizations giving $100,771,239 in grants to NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO, 619 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $29,407,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds New York Public Radio →
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 925 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