California · Nonprofit
SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC
SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,778,709 to it, the largest being TIANLIANG ALLIANCE INC ($560,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Sound of Hope Radio Network Inc does
Mission
Provide indenpendent and ojective news reprorting, culture programs that preserve and promote traditional Chinese culture, program that introduce to Chinese people to the best value of the west, current issue of China.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Built 24 hour radio streams for FM Radios and for internet with a focuse on news reporting and current events in China Provide indenpendent news, culture probram and current events talk show to China throw shortwave radio and through digital platform to international audience and through local FM station in US.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 $31M to $22M (−27%).
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.
14% of SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Allen Yong Zeng
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $565k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK 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
SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 46% · 2022 49% · 2023 81% — 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
57% of SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK 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
62% of SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC'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. Of the $670k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC's revenue fell 78% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC?
- SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,778,709 to it, the largest being TIANLIANG ALLIANCE INC ($560,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,778,709 in grants to SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC?
- TIANLIANG ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUND OF HOPE RADIO NETWORK INC 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 16 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