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RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,900 to it, the largest being SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS ($7,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$304k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$264k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Radio Television News Association of Southern California does

Mission

To promote excellence in local broadcast journalism, and to facilitate effective and unobstrusive media coverage of important news events.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Dot media parking

  2. Golden mike awards

  3. Golden mike awards

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($233k) Net assets 100 ($60k)2019 Revenue 102 ($255k) Expenses 91 ($211k) Net assets 173 ($103k)2020 Revenue 106 ($264k) Expenses 121 ($281k) Net assets 160 ($96k)2021 Revenue 89 ($221k) Expenses 88 ($205k) Net assets 188 ($112k)2022 Revenue 110 ($273k) Expenses 110 ($255k) Net assets 218 ($130k)2023 Revenue 121 ($300k) Expenses 112 ($262k) Net assets 283 ($168k)2024 Revenue 122 ($304k) Expenses 90 ($209k) Net assets 443 ($264k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (122)Expenses (90)Net assets (443)

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 $168k to $264k (+57%).

$60k
$103k
$96k
$112k
$130k
$168k
$264k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’18
$43k
’19
−$17k
’20
$16k
’21
$18k
’22
$38k
’23
$95k
’24
15
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed6666555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’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 TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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 RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
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 RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,900 to it, the largest being SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS ($7,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,900 in grants to RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Who is the largest funder of RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS is the largest funder on record, with $7,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2024), 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