California · Nonprofit
RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION
RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,212,406 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($5,574,482). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $87M
What Rural California Broadcasting Corporation does
Mission
Provide educational television and radio broadcasting in northern california.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The pbs station servicing the northern san francisco bay area over the air and the entire bay region on cable and satellite, northern california public media offers non-commercial programming drawn from pbs and other sources. Northern california public media focuses on environmental, health, and community engagement issues, seeking to engage its viewers with educational, cultural, and informational telecommunications.
$5,354,220 spent$405,463 earned by the program83% of program spendingThe npr affiliate for sonoma county, krcb fm provides music from classical to jazz to alternative genres, literary, and educational programming as well as national and locally produced news. Evening and overnight programming are all provided by volunteers who create and air their own locally produced show.
$1,105,524 spent$129,787 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,459,744.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $88M to $75M (−14%).
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 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 26% · 2020 31% · 2021 0% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% · 2024 29% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Darren Lashelle
President & CEO
Board chair
Margaret Mccarthy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $618k → $600k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION’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
RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 90% · 2019 93% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 85% — 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
40% of RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION's revenue fell 89% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION: 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 RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION?
- RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,212,406 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($5,574,482). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $6,212,406 in grants to RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $5,574,482 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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