Colorado · Nonprofit
Public Radio for the Front Range
Public Radio for the Front Range (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,826,989 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,086,315). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $651k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $913k
What Public Radio for the Front Range does
Mission
Krfc 88.9 fm radio fort collins makes great radio that is local, noncommercial, and volunteer powered. Their broadcast reaches fort collins, loveland, greeley, parts of denver, boulder and some of the mountain communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Krfc 88.9 fm radio fort collins provides great radio that is local, non commercial, and volunteer powered.
$593,075 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $593,075.
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 2019 to 2020, from $623k to $885k (+42%).
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 31% · 2018 17% · 2019 15% · 2020 35% · 2021 39% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of Public Radio for the Front Range’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Justin Clap
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $100k → $189k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Radio for the Front Range’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 Radio for the Front Range leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 Radio for the Front Range.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 57% · 2019 63% · 2020 51% · 2021 88% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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
83% of Public Radio for the Front Range's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Public Radio for the Front Range draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Public Radio for the Front Range has grown faster than half of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Public Radio for the Front Range
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Public Radio for the Front Range: 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 Public Radio for the Front Range?
- Public Radio for the Front Range (Colorado) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,826,989 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,086,315). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Public Radio for the Front Range have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,826,989 in grants to Public Radio for the Front Range, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Public Radio for the Front Range?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,086,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public Radio for the Front Range find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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