· Public charity
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
To ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecom services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- $10k–50k501 grants · $13M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+43 grants · $162M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL | $46,999,651 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $38,962,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $19,211,287 |
| BROADCAST MUSIC INC | $7,665,000 |
| MCGEE MEDIA LLC | $6,000,000 |
| INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE INC | $4,441,624 |
| WETA | $4,000,000 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC TELEVISION | $2,993,031 |
| KOAHNIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION | $2,500,000 |
| SOUNDEXCHANGE INC | $2,125,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $1,920,213 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,516,000 |
| OUT OF THE BLUE ENTERPRISES | $1,500,000 |
| SESAME WORKSHOP | $1,500,000 |
| IOWA PBS | $1,381,735 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
543 repeat relationships — 446 still active in FY2026, 97 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE10× · 2017–2026 · $670M · revenue +31%
- ITINDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICES INC10× · 2017–2026 · $169M · revenue +8% · 87% of their budget
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC10× · 2017–2026 · $134M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- PJPHOEBE & JAY PRODUCTIONS LLCone grant, 2024 · $3.0M
- WHWEATHER HUNTERS INCone grant, 2025 · $2.2M
- PPPROVIDENCE PICTURES INCone grant, 2023 · $875k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
The american coalition for public radio ("acpr") supports the educational mission of publicly funded, noncommercial, educational radio stations, networks, and systems (collectively, "public radio"). acpr's principal activities focus on…
National association of broadcasters (nab) advances the interest of radio and television broadcasters in federal government, industry and public affairs; improves the quality of broadcasting, and encourages technological innovation and…
The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation WPBF supports the work of the Educational Communications Board ECB a State of Wisconsin agency committed to ensuring that public media and public safety programs and services are available…
Kohala Mountain Radio was created to produce radio programs/podcasts, beginning with "Truth, Politics and Power," a one hour weekly program distributed by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. "Truth, Politics and Power" focuses on the changing…
Wabe strives to create a more informed, enriched, connected atlanta community through news, arts and culture, music, and entertainment on radio, tv, and digital platforms as well as by hosting a wide variety of community events. we…
Operation of non-commercial, educational radio station
To provide educational programming services.
Koop radio 91.7 fms mission is to engage, connect and enrich the whole community, including the underserved, through creating diverse, quality educational music and news programming.
Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Public Television Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
338 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 338 of the 613 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Public Radio International Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Public Broadcasting Service · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · National Public Radio Inc · Cars for Charity Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Writing Project Corporation · Storycorps Inc · World Learning Inc · Ibm International Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Public Television Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.