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National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
242
Grants FY2025still arriving
53
States reached
$591k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$8.9MInternational$868kPublic Benefit$838kEducation$469kScience & Tech$187kEnvironment$89kReligion$13kEmployment$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 242 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k193 grants · $5.5M
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.4M
$26,145
Median grant
53
States reached
$425M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO$590,715
LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIAWFPL$348,626
KPBS PUBLIC MEDIAKPBS$347,976
KQED PUBLIC MEDIA$346,407
WBHM$275,840
NPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC$272,594
KCUR$265,245
KERA$231,240
MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC BROADCASTINGWMPN$175,434
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIOKNPR$153,614
VPMWCVE$119,958
WHYY$109,441
WOUB PUBLIC MEDIAWOUB$106,708
WSIU PUBLIC BROADCASTINGWSIU$105,748
KUT$105,172
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 (FY25–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%WXPR: $26k → 12%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
NH
WA
ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 49% of National Public Radio Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

National Public Radio Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 56% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 104 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 101 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 131 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
7

Total granted

$18M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+9%

Still filing today

48%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentEmploymentReligionOther
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

  • KI
    KQED INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +4%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +133% · 100% of their budget
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
    4× · 2021–2025 · $993k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $238k · revenue -4%
  • SO
    STATE OF TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +24%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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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5
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Cheyenne Mountain Public Broadcast House Inc

Kcme is a trusted source of quality classical music and arts content for the people of colorado springs and southern colorado. we are dedicated to a vital cultural community by sharing the artistic voices of colorado springs and the world,…

Arts & Culture
8
Public Radio International Inc

To serve audiences as a distinctive content source for information, insights and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world.

Arts & Culture
9
Prx Inc

To lead changes that expand public media as a trusted source of knowledge, information, and inspiration for all.

Arts & Culture
10
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
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
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnin Tri-State Public Media Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 245 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/124
Grantees still filing
46/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $2,172,968 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $1,041,046 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMANPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC: $901,946 · OtherNPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INCUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $545,706 · OtherBoise State University: $448,238 · Other+103 more: $5,319,940 · Other+103 moreKQED INC: $2,152,491 · Arts & CultureKQED INCAMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $1,947,074 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIOTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $993,239 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIOKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $502,017 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INCCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $426,471 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $382,497 · Arts & Culture+61 more: $2,995,497 · Arts & Culture+61 moreSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $443,253 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $209,010 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $89,788 · EducationThe University of Tulsa: $89,553 · EducationEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $63,786 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $55,262 · Education+14 more: $447,479 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $238,300 · InternationalRURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATIO: $26,145 · InternationalRELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION: $70,743 · ReligionIDEASTREAM: $46,145 · Youth DevelopmentINLAND FUTURES FOUNDATION OF THE SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $34,891 · Employment
Other$10,429,844Arts & Culture$9,399,286Education$1,398,131International$264,445Religion$70,743Youth Development$46,145Employment$34,891

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKQED INC: $2,152,491 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO: $1,947,074 over 9y, 100% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $993,239 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetNPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC: $901,946 over 3y, 100% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $502,017 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $443,253 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $426,471 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $382,497 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $238,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $226,944 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $209,010 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $192,449 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $153,537 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $126,358 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPENNON ORGANIZATION: $115,787 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWSKG PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $114,163 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $89,788 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $89,553 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $85,360 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMetropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc: $80,699 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $80,298 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION: $70,743 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $69,870 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $63,786 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $61,006 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $58,635 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $57,992 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $55,262 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $52,940 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $52,290 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $46,963 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION: $46,145 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $46,145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $46,145 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $46,145 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc: $45,996 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $45,483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC: $45,335 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $41,751 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $41,627 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpokane Public Radio: $41,008 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWAMC: $40,119 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $40,011 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $39,667 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $39,084 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $38,554 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM I: $38,114 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBRAZOS VALLEY PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA: $38,047 over 2y, 3.6% 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 KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COALITION FOR PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds NPR INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds WSKG PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO 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.

Corporation for Publi…Public Broadcasting S…Greater Washington Ed…Cars for Charity IncNational Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…National Writing Proj…The Groundtruth Proje…Ibm International Fou…The Trustees of Colum…
Corporation for Public BroadcastingDC112.9× affinity54 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 · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · Cars for Charity Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Writing Project Corporation · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

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 National Public Radio Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Public Radio Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Newark Public Radio Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 245 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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