KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A34

Classification

1200

Street

988 MARKET ST STE 800

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2022

• MISSION: KALW SERVES THE PUBLIC WITH INDEPENDENT, INNOVATIVE, AND TRUSTED LOCAL AND GLOBAL NEWS, MUSIC, AND CULTURE PROGRAMMING. THE GOAL IS TO INFORM LISTENERS, CONNECT THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES OF THE SF BAY AREA, AND HELP TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC MEDIA MAKERS.KALW HAS AN INCREDIBLE, 80-YEAR HISTORY AND A PROMISING FUTURE BUILT ON DECADES OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS, LISTENERS, LEADERS, DONORS, PROGRAMMERS, AND PRODUCERS. WE BEGAN BROADCASTING ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1941 A FULL THIRTY YEARS BEFORE THE CREATION OF NPR. OUR BROADCAST LICENSE WAS OBTAINED AND CONTINUES TO BE HELD BY THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. KALW CREATED THE FIRST FM BROADCAST TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE COUNTRY AND IT TRAINED WOMEN IN RADIO BROADCASTING DURING WORLD WAR II. KALW CONTINUES THIS TRADITION WITH THE AUDIO ACADEMY, A 10-MONTH, TUITION-FREE JOURNALISM TRAINING PROGRAM, AS WELL AS ITS SUMMER PODCAST ACADEMY FOR TEENS AND ITS UNCUFFED RADIO TRAINING PROGRAM INSIDE SAN QUENTIN AND SOLANO STATE PRISONS. KALW HAS A TRACK RECORD OF PROGRAMMING INNOVATION: IT WAS THE FIRST STATION IN THE BAY AREA TO AIR FRESH AIR, THIS AMERICAN LIFE, SNAP JUDGEMENT AND THE DAILY. IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST STATION TO AIR THE BBC IN THE BAY AREA AND THE BBC'S STATION OF RECORD IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR DECADES. KALW IS ALSO THE BIRTHPLACE OF 99 PERCENT INVISIBLE AND RADIO AMBULANTE, AND SNAP JUDGEMENT'S GLYNN WASHINGTON RECORDED HIS SHOW'S DEMOS AT KALW'S STUDIOS. THE ORIGINS OF EAR HUSTLE CAN ALSO BE TRACED TO KALW'S VOLUNTEER PROGRAM AT SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON.THE STATION HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF HIGH-QUALITY, SOCIALLY MINDED RADIO FROM ITS INCEPTION. IT REMAINS DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE BAY AREA AND ITS CULTURE. THE EXPANSION INTO KALW@25THSTREET IN OAKLAND FOR THE NEW DJ LINEUP IS A TESTAMENT TO ITS DEDICATION TO ALL NINE BAY AREA COUNTIES WHERE IT BROADCASTS. KALW BELIEVES IN CREATING AND BROADCASTING STORIES THAT ARE SOCIAL-JUSTICE MINDED AND SOLUTIONS-ORIENTED.WITH ITS DIVERSE LEADERSHIP AND STAFF, AND THE VOICES OF THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE, KALW PUBLIC MEDIA IS ON A MISSION TO INSPIRE AUDIENCES AND TELL THE HUMAN STORY IN ALL ITS BREADTH AND RICHNESS. JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND COMMUNITY CREATION ARE AT THE HEART OF EVERYTHING KALW DOES.THE STATION IS SHAPING PUBLIC MEDIA'S FUTURE BY BUILDING UPON ITS LEGACY FOR INNOVATION AND WHAT'S NEXT, AS WELL AS BY TRAINING, NURTURING AND AMPLIFYING LOCAL VOICES AND MAKERS. THE STATION WILL CONTINUE TO SEEK OUT AND SHOWCASE THE BEST FROM AROUND THE GLOBE, AND SERVE AS AN ESSENTIAL AND TRUSTED SOURCE FOR NEWS, MUSIC, CULTURE, PODCASTING AND DIGITAL MEDIA.

  Expenses $3,260,707 · Revenue $83,122

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,526,506

  Expenses

  $3,928,736

  Contributions

  $5,435,186

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,087,947

  Expenses

  $3,386,826

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,398,474

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,919,239

  Expenses

  $2,268,848

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,198,450

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• UNLIKELY COLLABORATORS INC

  $560,500

  2024 · SEE PART IV

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $435,270

  2024 · Arts & Culture

• UNLIKELY COLLABORATORS INC

  $317,204

  2023 · A project that will spark, empower, and guide a series of projects featuring the pairing of unlikely collaborators to unlock new perspectives.

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $284,350

  2023 · Arts & Culture

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $243,699

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $119,504

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $92,645

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $91,903

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES

  $55,000

  2022 · CORE PROGRAMS

• CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · DEVELOPMENT OF NEW STUDIOS AT FUTURE OFFICES IN WARFIELD COMMONS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• QCSS INC.

  $0 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $0 to charity

• QCSS INC.

  $3,057 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $0 to charity

• QCSS INC.

  $0 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $0 to charity

• QCSS INC.

  $2,735 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $585 to charity

• RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

  $6,700 raised

  2021 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $4,165 to charity

• AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

  $3,150 raised

  2020 · CF Vehicle Donation Program

  $1,760 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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