North Carolina · Nonprofit
WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO
WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO (North Carolina) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,978,140 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($2,886,675). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Western N Carolina Public Radio does
Mission
Blue ridge public radio creates and curates content that informs, inspires, connects and reflects the people and places of western north carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Blue ridge public radio (bpr) is an independent, nonprofit public media organization serving western north carolina through bpr news and bpr classic. Bpr provides trusted local, regional, national, and international news, emergency information, and cultural programming through broadcast, digital, and on-demand platforms. Original local journalism, public service reporting, and music programming help fulfill bpr's mission to provide western north carolinians with a deeper understanding of one another and the world.
$2,249,686 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,249,686.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.4M to $4.8M (+44%).
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 9% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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
Jeffrey Pope
Gm / CEO thr
Board chair
William Travis Childs
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $240k → $453k.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 92% · 2019 89% · 2020 92% · 2021 82% · 2022 65% · 2023 59% — 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
46% of WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO'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
WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $828k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO: 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 WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO?
- WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO (North Carolina) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,978,140 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($2,886,675). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,978,140 in grants to WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $2,886,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing