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CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL
CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,791,380 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($19,834,849). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council does
Mission
Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. Klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many possibilities life presents us all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public tv programming - this includes programming, broadcast operations, communicationsprovides non-commercial television programming to the austin, texas area reaching a potential audience exceeding 1,000,680 households. Provides programming to multiple cable operators, two satellite operators and a wide range of online/digital distributionchannels/sites.
$5,946,623 spent46% of program spendingContent creation - production create and distribute more than 115 hours of original content pertaining to education, news and public affairs, arts and culture, train sutdents in production and news operations, conduct community outreach around content, provide support and guidance for local and regional filmmakers seeking a wider audience funded by donors, other nonprofits and businesses.
$6,327,595 spentof which $40,000 as grants$2,636,833 earned by the program49% of program spendingEducational and outreach services - education educational and outreach services provide programming, supplies for schools, child care facilities and parents. Serve approximately 7779 individuals during the fiscal year through our ready-to-learn, play-to-learn related workshops and projects that encompassed 23 events and 131 workshops. Provide professional development and educational video through pbs learning media and other media. Direct costs only funded by educational institutions, businesses, private donations and other non-profits.
$660,964 spent$857,370 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,935,182.
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 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $42M (+32%).
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 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2020 11% · 2021 19% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 11% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Luis Patino
CEO
Board chair
Nancy Pollard
Board chair / executive co
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $3.3M.
21 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $2.4M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 83% · 2019 79% · 2020 48% · 2021 74% · 2022 61% · 2023 64% — 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
47% of CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Acl Enterprises LLC · disregarded
- Texas Public Broadcasting Association · exempt
- Austin Pbs New Ventures · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: 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 CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL?
- CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,791,380 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($19,834,849). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $29,791,380 in grants to CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $19,834,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL 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 77 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing