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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, inspire, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k25 grants · $572k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $6.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PBS Foundation | $5,836,076 |
| WETA Greater Washington Ed Telecom | $744,750 |
| Second Peninsula LLC | $150,200 |
| Firelight Films Inc | $146,976 |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $144,913 |
| Balance Productions LLC | $119,200 |
| WNETWLIW | $110,300 |
| Independent Television Service (ITVS) | $110,100 |
| Univ of Utah (KUENKUED) | $104,389 |
| Western NY Public BRDCST Assoc (WNED) | $65,000 |
| Univ of Georgia Research FDN Inc | $56,513 |
| Alabama Public Television | $45,000 |
| Louisiana Public Broadcasting | $45,000 |
| WHYY | $45,000 |
| Rhode Island PBS | $45,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
144 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 115 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k 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
PBS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue ×12- TCTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $804k · revenue +2%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $770k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- VMVOX MEDIA INCone grant, 2019 · $2.0M
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $624k
- HPHouston Public Media Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $271k · revenue +7%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Wayne Public Television Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joint Master Control Operating Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 184 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
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 PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOCE-TV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds KVCR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENNON ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KSPS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA NJ 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: Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · National Public Radio Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Cars for Charity Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Documentary Inc · Public Media Group of Southern California · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Chemical Society
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 Public Broadcasting Service 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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
- 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.