Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
RADIO FREE ASIA
RADIO FREE ASIA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $238 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
RADIO FREE ASIA is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- City First Enterprises Inclocal
- The Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundationportfolio match
- Dow Jones Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RADIO FREE ASIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $86 → $44.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FREE ASIA’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 RADIO FREE ASIA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- City First Enterprises InclocalDC · funds 1035 organizations near you
- The Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dow Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanity United Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sidley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert and Janice Meister Family Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen M Silberstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johnson-Weaver Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glacs Endowment Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jlh Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Warren B Galkin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eric Javits Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding RADIO FREE ASIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $588.8M on record.
- U.S. Agency for Global Media$588.8M
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 RADIO FREE ASIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Radio Free Europeradio Liberty · exempt
- Middle East Broadcasting Networks Inc · exempt
- Rfa Post Retirement Medicallife Veba Trust · exempt
- Usagency for Global Media · exempt
- Open Technology Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RADIO FREE ASIA: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RADIO FREE ASIA?
- RADIO FREE ASIA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $238 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RADIO FREE ASIA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $238 in grants to RADIO FREE ASIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RADIO FREE ASIA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RADIO FREE ASIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing