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ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN
ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN (Texas) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,658,819 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,052,244). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Alamo Public Telecommunications Council Doing Business as Klrn does
Mission
THE MISSION OF KLRN IS TO open a world of lifelong learning through trustworthy and enriching programs on-air, online and in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming: alamo public telecommunications council operates klrn, the public television station serving san antonio and south central texas. Klrn serves a diverse audience of all ages by offering quality public media programming on four digital television channels:1. Klrn - san antonio pbs, pbs kids and pbs kids go.2. World - special repeat programs and news and public affairs programs.3. Pbs kids - a 24-7 kids channel with pbs kids programming.4. Create - lifestyle programs, including cooking, painting, sewing, travel and more.
$2,771,211 spent67% of program spendingContent creation: klrn produces programs of local community interest for local, regional and national broadcast as well as web only content. Local public affairs, programs on the arts and education, historical documentaries along with town-hall forums and political debates are some of the types of programs produced and created by klrn on a regular basis.
$745,146 spent18% of program spendingEducational services and outreach: klrn approaches learning as a life-long pursuit and provides educational services at many points of opportunity. Some of these services are directly linked to formal education and may result in academic credit. Others are less formal though informed by the same educational mission (see schedule 0 for additional information).
$643,916 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,160,273.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $9.0M to $11M (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 18% · 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 23% · 2021 33% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% · 2024 23% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Arthur Rojas Emerson
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.9M.
8 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.5M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Klrn Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN raised.
From the IRS filings of ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 86% · 2019 69% · 2020 77% · 2021 76% · 2022 70% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
61% of ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $548k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of Defense$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Klrn Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN?
- ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN (Texas) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,658,819 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,052,244). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $14,658,819 in grants to ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $11,052,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing