California · Nonprofit
White Ash Broadcasting Inc
White Ash Broadcasting Inc (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,578,870 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,784,273). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What White Ash Broadcasting Inc does
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide a public broadcasting service. The organization's mission is "expanding your word through voices and sounds that inform and inspire." approximately 70,000 people tune in weekly for national and local news and information, locally programmed classical music and other cultural arts programs. Many of these programs are unique to this station and market.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program & production: purchase of network news, music and entertainment programming. Local news content and programming, salaries for local program and production staff.
$1,172,682 spent67% of program spendingBroadcasting & technical: engineering fees, technology support services, salaries for on air announcers, utilities, maintenance of broadcasting equipment.
$440,223 spent25% of program spendingPublic information: marketing and promotion activities, publications, social media, community calendar, compliance.
$130,500 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,743,405.
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 $6.3M to $7.1M (+12%).
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 7% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 12% · 2021 21% · 2022 8% · 2023 14% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of White Ash Broadcasting Inc’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. 3 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
Shirin Assemi
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $561k → $561k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 White Ash Broadcasting 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
White Ash Broadcasting Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 White Ash Broadcasting Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 30% · 2019 38% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% — 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
60% of White Ash Broadcasting Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
64% of White Ash Broadcasting Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
White Ash Broadcasting Inc 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 White Ash Broadcasting 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 White Ash Broadcasting 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds White Ash Broadcasting Inc?
- White Ash Broadcasting Inc (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,578,870 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,784,273). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does White Ash Broadcasting Inc have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $5,578,870 in grants to White Ash Broadcasting Inc, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of White Ash Broadcasting Inc?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,784,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like White Ash Broadcasting 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.
Play a game about who funds White Ash Broadcasting →
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 29 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