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PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC

PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,982 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($17,893). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$211k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$53k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Public Media of New England Inc does

Mission

Deliver audio news reports, community calendars, weather forecasts and live programming of City Council & School Committee meetings. Community Events and open mike programming via radio and online.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Delivered audio news reports, community calendars, weather forecasts, live community programming, coverage of City Council and School Committee meetings. Coverage of community events and open mike programming.

    $170,227 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $170,227.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2019 Revenue 147 ($186k) Expenses 158 ($193k) Net assets 76 ($22k)2020 Revenue 111 ($140k) Expenses 126 ($154k) Net assets 31 ($9k)2022 Revenue 133 ($168k) Expenses 140 ($172k) Net assets 83 ($24k)2023 Revenue 157 ($197k) Expenses 156 ($191k) Net assets 106 ($31k)2024 Revenue 161 ($203k) Expenses 155 ($189k) Net assets 154 ($45k)2025 Revenue 167 ($211k) Expenses 166 ($203k) Net assets 180 ($53k)
2018201920202022202320242025
Revenue (167)Expenses (166)Net assets (180)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 2023 to 2024, from $37k to $48k (+32%).

$29k
$32k
$32k
$32k
$37k
$48k
$56k
2018201920202022202320242025
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.

2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’18
−$7k
’19
−$13k
’20
−$4k
’22
$7k
’23
$14k
’24
$7k
’25
1.2
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.

20242025
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $26.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND 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

PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

78% 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 PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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

78% of PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.

State$35k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$35k

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 PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,982 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($17,893). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,982 in grants to PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,893 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PUBLIC MEDIA OF NEW ENGLAND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing