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Public Media Group of Southern California

We use the power of media for public good.

$326k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20232025.

Arts & Culture$368kEducation$72kOther$30k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$141M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC$50,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO$50,000
ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC$50,000
FRIENDS OF IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION INC$50,000
WHYY INC$50,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$22,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%FRIENDS OF IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $50k → 8%WQED MULTIMEDIA: $10k → 11%WHYY INC: $50k → 22%CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $10k → 10%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $20k → 14%SC EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COMMISSION: $10k → 16%ALABAMA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION AUTHORITY: $20k → 16%NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $50k → 14%MID-SOUTH PACIFIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $50k → 10%KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%ALABAMA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION AUTHORITY: $18k → 16%NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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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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
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
East Tennessee Public Communications Corporation

Operation of public tv station.

Arts & Culture
5
Npr Foundation

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…

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
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
8
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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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
12
Prx Inc

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whyy Inc. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INCWHYY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INCALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INCFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Idaho Public Television IncNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIOAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority — $38,000 · Arts & CultureAlabama Education Television Foundation AuthorityNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC+6 more — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreOklahoma State University Foundation — $50,000 · EducationOklahoma State Un…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $22,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNI…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA NETWORK — $10,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$368,000Education$72,000Other$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHYY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlabama Education Television Foundation Authority — $38,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-SOUTH PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Corporation for Public BroadcastingDC26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · Public Broadcasting Service · Ibm International Foundation · National Public Radio Inc · Cars for Charity Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Media Group of Southern California 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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