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Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc

The weta mission is to produce and distribute content of intellectual integrity and cultural merit using a broad range of media to reach audiences both in our community and nationwide.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
37
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.9MEducation$391kScience & Tech$51kPhilanthropy$38k
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 71 grants below total $993,575, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,093,092 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $99,517 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $154k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $840k
$10,000
Median grant
37
States reached
$229M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc$48,000
VuHaus Corp$40,000
Georgia Public Broadcasting$38,000
MPT FOUNDATION INC$33,500
University of Utah$27,500
WHYY INC$25,500
South Florida PBS Inc$23,000
Nashville Public Television$23,000
Detroit Public Television$23,000
Window To The World$22,500
WMHT-TV$22,500
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc$21,000
NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL$20,500
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$20,000
AMARILLO JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT$20,000
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 (FY19–22, $20k) 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%MOUNTAIN LAKE PBS: $10k → 14%MOUNTAIN LAKE PBS: $10k → 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
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
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 96 repeat orgs$509k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
39

Total granted

$4.8M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+17%

Still filing today

76%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +49%
  • NP
    NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +24%
  • WT
    WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $126k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • KF
    KOCE-TV FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -94%
  • PB
    PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +25%
  • EE
    ETV Endowment of South Carolina Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +57%
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.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
3
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
4
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. (npr) collaborates with member public radio stations to create a more informed public, one challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding of events, ideas, and cultures. npr advances this mission by…

Arts & Culture
5
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
6
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
7
Public Broadcasting Service

The public broadcasting service (pbs), incorporated in 1969, is a membership organization that in partnership with its member stations serves the american public with programming and services of the highest quality, using media to educate,…

Arts & Culture
8
Western New York Public Broadcasting Association

We engage our communities through education, exploration, and entertainment - everywhere - including assisting partners in achieving the same.

Arts & Culture
9
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc

The mission of north texas public broadcasting, inc. is to serve north texans through public television, radio and multimedia resources that educate, engage, inspire, inform and entertain.

Arts & Culture
12
Peconic Public Broadcasting

Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Public Television Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vuhaus Corp. 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

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 145 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/104
Grantees still filing
74/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $172,400 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $139,875 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $126,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $110,800 · Arts & Culture+75 more: $2,706,311 · Arts & Culture+75 moreGEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION: $209,050 · OtherGEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS C…UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $102,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICOAMARILLO JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT: $90,800 · OtherAMARILLO JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTREDWOOD EMPIRE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $78,500 · OtherNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $71,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $70,000 · OtherTHE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $55,700 · Other+41 more: $880,044 · Other+41 moreTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $90,450 · EducationWestern Illinois University Foundation: $45,500 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $28,680 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $27,756 · EducationUniversity of New Orleans Foundation: $24,500 · EducationSISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO ANA G MENDEZ INCORPORADO: $20,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $25,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 · PhilanthropyNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,500 · PhilanthropyWTVI FOUNDATION INC: $22,963 · PhilanthropyIDEASTREAM: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentMOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS: $20,000 · Human ServicesRURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATIO: $8,000 · International
Arts & Culture$3,255,386Other$1,662,094Education$287,636Philanthropy$111,463Youth Development$34,500Human Services$20,000International$8,000

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 budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $172,400 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $139,875 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $126,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $110,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWHYY INC: $106,706 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $95,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC: $93,367 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC: $92,375 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $90,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL: $88,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $84,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWSKG PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $83,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting: $81,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $78,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetValley Public Television Inc: $72,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $70,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $68,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $67,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $66,737 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $66,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab: $64,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $63,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION: $56,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $55,700 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $54,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUPPER CUMBERLAND BROADCAST COUNCIL: $53,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $50,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $50,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $50,095 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION: $48,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPENNON ORGANIZATION: $46,866 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $45,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $45,150 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL OF CNY INC: $41,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $36,223 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWJCT INC: $35,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $34,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF KSPS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWSRE TV FOUNDATION INC: $29,500 over 3y, 1.0% 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 DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
  • Who funds WSKG PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Valley Public Television Inc ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
  • Who funds Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds UPPER CUMBERLAND BROADCAST COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗

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.

Corporation for Publi…Public Broadcasting S…Ibm International Fou…National Public Radio…Cars for Charity IncPublic Media Group of…American Documentary …Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Groundtruth Proje…Storycorps IncSentry Insurance Foun…Lincoln Financial Fou…
Corporation for Public BroadcastingDC141.6× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Public Broadcasting Service · Ibm International Foundation · National Public Radio Inc · Cars for Charity Inc · Public Media Group of Southern California · American Documentary Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Storycorps Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc

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 Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Newark Public Radio Inc: 51% of income from government
  • University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% 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
  • New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 145 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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