Texas · Nonprofit
Wimberley Valley Radio
Wimberley Valley Radio (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,766 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($162,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $386k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $377k
- Net assets
- $150k
What Wimberley Valley Radio does
Mission
To apply for, license, and operate one or more noncommercial, educational broadcast stations and internet radio station, and to serve and fully qualify as a public telecommuncations entity within the intent of 47 U.S.C. Section 397(12). In order to support Wimberleys local musicians and arts community; to provide educational programming, including public and emergency information; to provide local and county news unavailable in other broadcast media in the area; and to educate students and other interested individuals in radio-related technical and communication skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In order to support Wimberleys local musicians and arts community; to provide educationl programming, including public and emergency information;to provide local and county news unavailable in other broadcast media in the area; and to educate students and other interested individuals in radio-related technical and communication skills.
$142,674 spent$512,706 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $142,674.
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 $141k to $239k (+69%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Wimberley Valley Radio’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $57k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 Wimberley Valley Radio’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
Wimberley Valley Radio leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 Wimberley Valley Radio.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 73% · 2023 90% — 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
25% of Wimberley Valley Radio's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
67% of Wimberley Valley Radio'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 $126k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k 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
Wimberley Valley Radio has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Wimberley Valley 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wimberley Valley 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 Wimberley Valley Radio?
- Wimberley Valley Radio (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $376,766 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($162,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wimberley Valley Radio have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $376,766 in grants to Wimberley Valley Radio, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wimberley Valley Radio?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $162,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wimberley Valley Radio find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 10 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