Minnesota · Nonprofit
Public Radio International Inc
Public Radio International Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,438,181 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($46,999,651). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $352k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $52M
- Net assets
- $-2530759
What Public Radio International Inc does
Mission
To serve audiences as a distinctive content source for information, insights and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
PRI is a non-profit media company specializing in audio journalism and storytelling.We believe strong public media is anchored in journalism, strengthened with diversevoices, and amplified by innovative technology.In collaboration with our parent Organization, today PRI works in partnership with hundreds of public radio stations and thousands of independent producers. Since 2016, our work has also included a substantial training program, which is helping journalists and storytellers from across the country and around the world adapt to and succeed in the highly competitive podcast market.In 2020, together with PRX, PRI introduced PRX Productions, a team of audiodirectors, editors, sound designers, engineers and producers that specialize in thehighest quality audio production and storytelling. We help make audio in all forms:podcasts, broadcast shows, experiential audio, and sonic identifiers for ourpartners.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 $13M to $7.2M (−44%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Public Radio International Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Kerri Hoffman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $92k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $3.1M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Oakleaf Endowment Trust for Public Radio International). These are real filings, and they are not money Public Radio International Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Public Radio International Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
Public Radio International Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 International Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 24% · 2019 68% · 2020 56% · 2021 41% · 2022 60% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of Public Radio International Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 International Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $915k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 International Inc's revenue fell 98% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Public Radio International Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record — $501k federal, $675k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$301k
- National Endowment for the Arts$200k
- NJ$518k
- OK$157k
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 Radio International 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Oakleaf Endowment Trust for Pri · exempt
- Wgbh Educational Foundation · exempt
- PRX Inc · exempt
- New England Public Media Inc · exempt
- BTL Music Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Public Radio International 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 Public Radio International Inc?
- Public Radio International Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,438,181 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($46,999,651). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Public Radio International Inc have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $52,438,181 in grants to Public Radio International Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Public Radio International Inc?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $46,999,651 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public Radio International Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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