· Public charity
WGBH Educational Foundation
WGBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $676k
- $250k+2 grants · $691k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Apograph Productions Inc | $377,835 |
| Pellet Productions Inc | $313,016 |
| University of Washington | $223,234 |
| Education Development Center | $188,879 |
| NORC | $185,326 |
| Trustees of Boston University | $78,832 |
| Alaska Public Media Inc | $30,000 |
| AINE | $19,197 |
| Brandeis University | $9,540 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EDEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +9%
- NYNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
- IIIEARN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $567k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- MLMoonshot LLCone grant, 2019 · $535k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Family Health International Inc ↗
- Who funds IEARN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR NATIVE EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization WGBH Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WGBH Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Education Development Center Inc: 65% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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