New York · Nonprofit
RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC
RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,415,704 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $59k
What Radio Ambulante Studios Inc does
Mission
To tell underreported latin american stories from anywhere spanish is spoken, including the united states. These stories are made to educate, disseminate information, and provide new perspectives on latin american/latino identity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the year radio ambulante produced podcasts that tell the stories of latin america. The podcasts were distributed by national public radio and covered a variety of topics including the environment and science, human interest, human rights, and immigration. In reporting a story, we work with a talented community of freelance storytellers and radio producers from different corners of the continent. Therefore, radio ambulante may operate in any region or country around the world where we can investigate neglected and underreported stories that will educate and serve our community of listeners. Radio ambulante reported stories from argentina, brazil, canada, chile, colombia, cuba, ecuador, el salvador, spain, guatemala, honduras, mexico, peru, united kingdom, dominican republic, uruguay and venezuela. In order to report stories overseas, we work with correspondents and freelance local journalists with a broad knowledge of local current events.
$1,661,112 spent$856,561 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,661,112.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $193k to $785k (+306%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Maria Carolina Guerrero Ulloa
Board president/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $175k → $575k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 37% · 2019 38% · 2020 54% · 2021 38% · 2022 33% · 2023 35% — 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
38% of RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
54% of RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS 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 RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC?
- RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,415,704 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,415,704 in grants to RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 25 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