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Texas Public Broadcasting Association

The texas public broadcating association will increase public awareness, develop mechanism for member cooperative efforts, and promote the funding and general well-being of public broadcasting for the benefit of the people of texas.

$295k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MEducation$18k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
$31,797
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING$60,243
HOUSTON PBS$51,949
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY DBA KTTZ$46,828
ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION$40,784
SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING$31,797
CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL$23,683
PERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC$21,560
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (KAMU-TV)$11,379
PANHANDLE PBS - A PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATION OF AMARILLO COLLEGE$7,019
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $77k → 14%ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $63k → 16%HOUSTON PBS: $69k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $39k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (KAMU-TV): $11k → 22%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $60k → 14%ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $41k → 16%HOUSTON PBS: $52k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $32k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (KAMU-TV): $7k → 22%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $59k → 14%Alamo Public Television: $33k → 16%Houston PBS: $41k → 16%South Texas Public Broadcasti: $27k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KAMU-TV: $3k → 22%North Texas Public Broadcasti: $53k → 14%ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $23k → 16%HOUSTON PBS: $34k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $12k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KAMU-TV: $3k → 22%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $53k → 14%ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $19k → 16%HOUSTON PBS: $31k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 17%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KAMU-TV: $2k → 22%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $38k → 14%MBTV TEXAS VALLEY LLC: $11k → 16%HOUSTON PBS: $31k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 17%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $37k → 14%ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $18k → 16%HOUSTON PBS: $29k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $9k → 17%NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $32k → 14%MBTV TEXAS VALLEY LLC: $1k → 16%HOUSTON PBS: $29k → 16%ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $16k → 16%MBTV TEXAS VALLEY LLC: $72 → 16%ALAMO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $16k → 16%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 12 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$1.7M
$53k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $356k · revenue +200%
  • HP
    Houston Public Media Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $316k · revenue +5%
  • CO
    CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $272k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • NT
    North Texas Public Broadcasti
    one grant, 2017 · $53k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $356,462 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCHouston Public Media Foundation: $316,028 · Arts & CultureHouston Public Media FoundationCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $272,216 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCILALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $227,409 · Arts & CultureALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRNPERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $139,834 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INCSOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM I: $137,936 · Arts & CultureSOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM ITEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM: $130,398 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSIT…EL PASO PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $55,881 · OtherEL PASO PUBLIC TELEV…North Texas Public Broadcasti: $52,975 · OtherNorth Texas Public B…TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $26,342 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYAMARILLO JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT: $23,811 · OtherAMARILLO JUNIOR COLL…KNCT: $19,676 · OtherKNCTMBTV TEXAS VALLEY LLC: $11,889 · Other
Arts & Culture$1,449,885Other$320,972

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $356,462 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $316,028 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $272,216 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $227,409 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $139,834 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM I: $137,936 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetEL PASO PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $55,881 over 4y, 3.2% 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 NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM I ↗
  • Who funds EL PASO PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Corporation for Publi…
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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 Texas Public Broadcasting Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Public Broadcasting Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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