Minnesota · Nonprofit
PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA
PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being WAYNE GOLDSTEIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $750
- Net assets
- $5
What Public Record Media does
Mission
Public Record Media's mission is to pursue transparancy and democracy through use, application, and enforcement of freedom of information laws.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Research and publication of government records; foi litigation and amicus briefing; public education about government transparency.
$1,870 spent100% of program spendingResearch & publication 0f government records: foi litigation: public education about government transparancy.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,870.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1k to $5 (−100%).
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.
100% of PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $250.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA’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
100% of PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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 RECORD MEDIA's revenue fell 62% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA
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.
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA: 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 RECORD MEDIA?
- PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being WAYNE GOLDSTEIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750 in grants to PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA?
- WAYNE GOLDSTEIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC RECORD MEDIA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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