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PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC

PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $473 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$208k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$473
Net assets
$8.0M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Princeton Broadcasting Service Inc does

Mission

To provide educational opportunities and experiences through the operation of a commercial radio station and weekly newspaper at princeton university using volunteers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide educational opportunities and experiences through the operation of a commercial radio station at princeton university using volunteers.

    $3,263 spent$74,511 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  2. To provide educational opportunities and experiences through the operation of a weekly newspaper at princeton university using volunteers.

    $173,313 spent
    98% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,576.

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 ($309k) Expenses 100 ($258k) Net assets 100 ($5.5M)2018 Revenue 111 ($344k) Expenses 124 ($320k) Net assets 102 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 147 ($455k) Expenses 111 ($286k) Net assets 112 ($6.1M)2020 Revenue 136 ($421k) Expenses 115 ($296k) Net assets 125 ($6.9M)2021 Revenue 196 ($605k) Expenses 121 ($313k) Net assets 159 ($8.7M)2022 Revenue 66 ($203k) Expenses 168 ($434k) Net assets 150 ($8.2M)2023 Revenue 84 ($260k) Expenses 175 ($451k) Net assets 147 ($8.0M)2024 Revenue 67 ($208k) Expenses 180 ($465k) Net assets 147 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (180)Net assets (147)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 2020 to 2021, from $6.9M to $8.7M (+26%).

$5.5M
$5.6M
$6.2M
$6.9M
$8.7M
$8.2M
$8.5M
$8.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

66% of PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’17
$24k
’18
$169k
’19
$124k
’20
$292k
’21
−$230k
’22
−$191k
’23
−$257k
’24
15
months of
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.

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Listed87779878
Joined·+3+2+1+5+1+1+3
No longer listed·4213222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $30.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1

1 of 3 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.

From the IRS filings of PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE 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.

How concentrated its funding is

PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.

NY
NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−124% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC

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In New Jersey

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

39% of spending goes to programs.

Program 39%Management 40%Fundraising 21%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

PA
NJ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE 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 PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC?
PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $473 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $473 in grants to PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC?
JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRINCETON BROADCASTING SERVICE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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