Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC
SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,611 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($925,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $643k
What Slb Radio Productions Inc does
Mission
Provide educational programming that uses audio to encourage, amplify, distribute, and archive ideas, stories, and feelings of children and youth via radio programs, workshops, appearances and presentations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Radio production and workshops-slb broadcasts a 6-hour saturday morning radio program called the saturday light brigade. This program airs 52 weeks/year on multiple radio stations covering sixteen counties in western pennsylvania and ohio, as well as via the internet. The program blends acoustic music, interactive activities for children and families, live performances by youth and adults, youth-produced features and interviews with community-based nonprofits. A total of 52 episodes of the saturday light brigade radio program were produced in the prior year and featured over 200 youth and adult guests with an estimated audience size of 40,000 families/episode. Slb also maintained www.slbradio.org, as well as a weekly email newsletter sent to over 8,000 stakeholders.
$211,003 spent25% of program spendingCommissioned workshops and projects -school-specific classes, after school programs, podcasts, and field trips as carried out in the field or onsite at multiple schools and community centers.
$211,003 spent$352,528 earned by the program25% of program spendingYouth media center - staffing and operation of our 3,500 sf youth media center, including delivery of free programs to teens throughout allegheny county and beyond.
$422,007 spent50% of program spendingKidsburgh fiscal sponsorship
$4,036 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $848,049.
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 2020 to 2021, from $736k to $1.7M (+138%).
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: 2020 21% · 2021 36% · 2022 10% · 2023 5% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $375k.
6 of 24 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 SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS 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
SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 53% · 2018 67% · 2019 38% · 2020 26% · 2021 46% · 2022 38% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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
23% of SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $162k 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
SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS 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 SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC?
- SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,611 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($925,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,547,611 in grants to SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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