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Corporation for Public Broadcasting

To ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecom services.

$176M
Granted FY2026still arriving
555
Grants FY2026still arriving
54
States reached
$47M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$4.8BEducation$181MScience & Tech$18MPublic Benefit$7.4MCommunity Improvement$6.6MEnvironment$5.5MReligion$4.7MFood & Nutrition$4.6MOther$0
02FY2026 · 555 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k501 grants · $13M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+43 grants · $162M
$22,300
Median grant
54
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SESAME WORKSHOP$1,500,000
OUT OF THE BLUE ENTERPRISES$1,500,000
IOWA PBS$1,381,735
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WCFE: $979k → 14%WCFE: $910k → 14%WCFE: $847k → 14%WCFE: $822k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9B · 543 repeat orgs$67M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

543
60

Total granted

$4.9B
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

54%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PB
    PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
    10× · 2017–2026 · $670M · revenue +31%
  • IT
    INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICES INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $169M · revenue +36% · 87% of their budget
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $134M · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • PJ
    PHOEBE & JAY PRODUCTIONS LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $3.0M
  • WH
    WEATHER HUNTERS INC
    one grant, 2025 · $2.2M
  • PP
    PROVIDENCE PICTURES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $875k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Rocky Mountain Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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Kohala Mountain Radio

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…

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3
Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab

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…

Arts & Culture
5
American Coalition for Public Radio

The american coalition for public radio supports the educational mission of publicly funded, noncommercial radio stations, networks, and systems (collectively, "public radio").

Arts & Culture
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation (foundation) is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. (npr). the foundation supports npr through various activities (e.g., conducting…

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7
National Association of Broadcasters

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…

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8
Technology Broadcasting Corporation

Operation of non-commercial, educational radio station

Arts & Culture
9
Texas Educational Broadcasting Cooperative Inc

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.

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10
Wcuw Inc

Broadcasting, leasing, maintaining and operating noncommercial radio broadcasting facilities to inform, educate and entertain the general public

Arts & Culture
11
Florida Public Broadcasting Service Inc

To provide educational programming services.

Arts & Culture
12
Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc

The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Ksps; 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.
04the grantee network

338 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

124
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
319/338
Grantees still filing
243/338
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $669,860,798 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICEWGBH Educational Foundation: $169,479,394 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational FoundationINDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICES INC: $169,182,047 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICES INCGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $134,335,256 · Arts & CultureWNET: $121,495,235 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $113,781,800 · Arts & Culture+92 more: $1,395,075,877 · Arts & Culture+92 moreUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $56,095,764 · OtherASCAP GENERAL: $50,774,004 · Other+89 more: $1,327,865,402 · Other+89 moreSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $33,127,418 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $16,693,472 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11,116,419 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $8,602,704 · EducationTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $8,168,645 · EducationSISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO ANA G MENDEZ INCORPORADO: $6,318,327 · EducationIDEASTREAM: $26,654,814 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF KEXP: $5,833,661 · Youth DevelopmentFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $14,607,800 · Civil RightsKTOO PUBLIC MEDIA: $11,357,501 · EmploymentMOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS: $8,288,843 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$2,773,210,407Other$1,434,735,170Education$84,026,985Youth Development$32,488,475Civil Rights$14,607,800Employment$11,357,501Human Services$8,288,843

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $669,860,798 over 10y, 24% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $169,479,394 over 10y, 12% of budgetINDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICES INC: $169,182,047 over 10y, 87% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $134,335,256 over 10y, 14% of budgetWNET: $121,495,235 over 10y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $113,781,800 over 9y, 11% of budgetKQED INC: $65,790,672 over 10y, 8.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $46,628,625 over 10y, 6.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $36,553,585 over 10y, 11% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $36,511,144 over 10y, 9.0% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $36,153,753 over 10y, 14% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $33,622,944 over 10y, 10% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $33,127,418 over 10y, 2.7% of budgetWHYY INC: $32,694,895 over 10y, 9.8% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $29,407,190 over 10y, 5.2% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $26,654,814 over 10y, 15% of budgetEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $25,431,857 over 10y, 2.8% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $24,514,370 over 10y, 12% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $23,502,896 over 10y, 13% of budgetAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority: $23,213,172 over 10y, 51% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $22,671,095 over 10y, 12% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $22,070,953 over 10y, 17% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $20,899,055 over 10y, 13% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $20,844,555 over 10y, 12% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $19,865,790 over 10y, 13% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $19,834,849 over 10y, 14% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $18,695,949 over 10y, 21% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $18,678,197 over 10y, 21% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC: $18,476,846 over 10y, 20% of budgetKVIE INC: $18,210,182 over 10y, 14% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $17,792,481 over 10y, 15% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $17,629,087 over 10y, 18% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $17,288,209 over 10y, 19% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $17,251,588 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $17,227,319 over 10y, 88% of budgetBLACK PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $16,945,069 over 10y, 93% of budgetFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc: $16,712,392 over 10y, 28% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $16,693,472 over 10y, 0.3% of budgetWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL: $16,605,805 over 10y, 17% of budgetPrairie Public Broadcasting Inc: $16,349,920 over 10y, 25% of budgetVISION MAKER MEDIA: $16,277,319 over 10y, 84% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $16,236,175 over 10y, 18% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $16,145,981 over 10y, 6.8% of budgetCenter for Asian American Media: $16,027,319 over 10y, 55% of budgetPACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS: $16,027,319 over 10y, 97% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,900,671 over 10y, 13% of budgetCAPITAL CONCERTS INC: $15,308,250 over 9y, 16% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $15,186,564 over 10y, 16% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Public Broadcasting S…Greater Washington Ed…National Public Radio…Cars for Charity IncNational Collegiate A…American Chemical Soc…The Groundtruth Proje…Folds of Honor Founda…National Writing Proj…Storycorps IncWorld Learning IncIbm International Fou…
Public Broadcasting ServiceVA178.5× affinity93 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
72report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 613 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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