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PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC

PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $183,636 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($183,636). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$419k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$184k
Net assets
$468k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Public Radio Program Directors Association Inc does

Mission

Prpd (dba, public media content collective (pmcc)) is a membership organization that empowers public media content leaders, managers, and professionals to understand, serve, and grow their audiences within an increasingly complex and competitive multi-platform media landscape.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Annual public radio content conference for noncommercial content leaders, managers, and creators. Attendees from public media organizations across the country and the world come together each year for high level presentations, learning opportunities and networking; bringing broadcast, production and distribution into these conversations of national importance.

    $129,847 spent$60,675 earned by the program
    44% of program spending
  2. Public radio education and training through webinars, virtual events, convenings, documentation, and resource development and distribution.

    $165,802 spent$22,579 earned by the program
    56% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $295,649.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($831k) Expenses 100 ($842k) Net assets 100 ($551k)2018 Revenue 94 ($779k) Expenses 96 ($805k) Net assets 96 ($530k)2019 Revenue 86 ($715k) Expenses 97 ($817k) Net assets 80 ($441k)2020 Revenue 81 ($670k) Expenses 88 ($742k) Net assets 67 ($367k)2021 Revenue 42 ($350k) Expenses 42 ($349k) Net assets 72 ($396k)2022 Revenue 61 ($511k) Expenses 42 ($356k) Net assets 96 ($530k)2023 Revenue 87 ($726k) Expenses 90 ($760k) Net assets 90 ($494k)2024 Revenue 77 ($641k) Expenses 89 ($747k) Net assets 73 ($400k)2025 Revenue 50 ($419k) Expenses 44 ($372k) Net assets 85 ($468k)
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Revenue (50)Expenses (44)Net assets (85)

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 $601k to $429k (−29%).

$752k
$689k
$546k
$520k
$606k
$720k
$601k
$429k
$554k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 16% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
−$26k
’18
−$101k
’19
−$71k
’20
$307
’21
$155k
’22
−$33k
’23
−$105k
’24
$48k
’25
3.3
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.

Chief executive

Abby Goldstein

President and executive director

Board chair

Jenell Walton

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121113121419181816
Joined·+0+5+1+2+8+3+5+1
No longer listed·13203453
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $19k → $40k.

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

From the IRS filings of PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION 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 PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.

DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION 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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC?
PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $183,636 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($183,636). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $183,636 in grants to PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $183,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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