Washington · Nonprofit
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA (Washington) receives grants from 178 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,390,414 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($24,514,370). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 178
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $120M
What Cascade Public Media does
Mission
Cascade Public Media is a nonprofit media organization with a mission to inform and inspire our community to make the world a better place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming and content creationCascade Public Media produces, acquires, and distributes high-quality factual, cultural and community centered programming for people of all ages across the pacific northwest. Its non-commercial programming slate includes local, national, and international news science and nature history and culture arts and performance independent documentary, international drama and children's programming.
$13,670,564 spentof which $40,000 as grants61% of program spendingProgram information and promotionCascade Public Media provides updates and announcements about our local news, programming, and events through many communication channels including on-air, e-mail, social media, event listings, community partnerships and website postings. All of these outreach activities are intended to raise awareness, deepen engagement and maximize the impact of our programs and initiatives.
$2,158,514 spent10% of program spendingBroadcastCascade Public Media offers 24/7 noncommercial program distribution services across four linear channels of programming - Cascade Public Media: general interest public television create: how-to and lifestyle shows world: non-fiction, news, science and documentary content and pbs kids: curriculum-based shows designed to build basic skills in subjects such as math, science and reading.
$6,432,978 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,262,056.
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 2021 to 2022, from $65M to $91M (+40%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
Robert I Dunlop
President/CEO
Board chair
Barbara Bennett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 53 funders to 84 funders, grant income rose $3.0M → $8.8M.
26 of 178 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 178 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
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 78% · 2019 69% · 2020 62% · 2021 64% · 2022 42% · 2023 37% — 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 CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA'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
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA runs a healthier operating margin 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 CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- U.S. Agency for Global Media$5k
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 CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Kcts 9 Society · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: 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 CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA?
- CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA (Washington) receives grants from 178 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,390,414 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($24,514,370). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 178 organizations giving $47,390,414 in grants to CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA, 117 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $24,514,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 178 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