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Public Media Group of Southern California

We use the power of media for public good. We strengthen the civic fabric of southern california, share our distinctive perspective with the rest of the nation, and provide our community with an essential connection to a wider world. We are creating a new public media model that is multi-platform, diversified, modern and built around…

$326k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$141M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Public Media Group of Southern California funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$322k100%
FY20241$18k0%
FY202310$130kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Public Benefit$300kArts & Culture$118kEducation$52k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ID
PA
RI
NE
KY
AZ
TN
SC
OK
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Public Media Group of Southern California supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWhyy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Public Radio: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Public Television Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlaska Public Media Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 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

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.

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About Public Media Group of Southern California

How much does Public Media Group of Southern California give?
Public Media Group of Southern California reported 7 grants totaling $326,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Public Media Group of Southern California fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (64%), Arts & Culture (25%), Education (11%).
Who are Public Media Group of Southern California's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc ($50k), Whyy Inc ($50k), Nashville Public Radio ($50k).
Does Public Media Group of Southern California fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Media Group of Southern California?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc, Public Broadcasting Service.
Where is Public Media Group of Southern California based?
Public Media Group of Southern California is based in CA.

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 17 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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