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PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC

PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$1.9M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Penfold Communications Inc does

Programs

  1. Broadcast non-profit religious programming through the use of a noncommercial radio network.

    $908,265 spent
  2. Contributions of gift-in-kind (air time), were donated to 30 various not for profit organizations to carry out its activities of spreading the gospel with a market value of $720,500 (ASC 820).

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($989k) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 115 ($1.1M) Expenses 85 ($1.1M) Net assets 101 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 190 ($1.9M) Expenses 92 ($1.2M) Net assets 150 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 94 ($927k) Expenses 84 ($1.1M) Net assets 136 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 109 ($1.1M) Expenses 79 ($1.0M) Net assets 138 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 98 ($973k) Expenses 80 ($1.1M) Net assets 131 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 103 ($1.0M) Expenses 75 ($990k) Net assets 132 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 98 ($972k) Expenses 68 ($900k) Net assets 140 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 167 ($1.7M) Expenses 125 ($1.6M) Net assets 141 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (167)Expenses (125)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.8M to $2.2M (+23%).

$1.8M
$1.8M
$2.2M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

Funder
'18
'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC's revenue grew 67% between 2017 and 2025.

Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC?
PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC?
RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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