South Dakota · Nonprofit
Public Radio News Directors Inc
Public Radio News Directors Inc (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,433,300 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,433,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $829k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $385k
What Public Radio News Directors Inc does
Mission
To Educate and share Information in the Pubilc Radio News Directors sector.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Purpose to share education, communication, and infromation within public radio news directors professional sector.
$605,342 spent$669,941 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $605,342.
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 2024 to 2025, from $195k to $1.4M (+607%).
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.
29% of Public Radio News Directors Inc’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. 4 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
Christine Paige Diers
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $120k.
From the IRS filings of Public Radio News Directors 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
Public Radio News Directors Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Public Radio News Directors Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Public Radio News Directors 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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Public Radio News Directors 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.
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 News Directors Inc?
- Public Radio News Directors Inc (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,433,300 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,433,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Public Radio News Directors Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,433,300 in grants to Public Radio News Directors Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Public Radio News Directors Inc?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,433,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public Radio News Directors Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 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