Nevada · Nonprofit
CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC (Nevada) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,751,327 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,220,506). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Channel 5 Public Broadcasting Inc does
Mission
To entertain your curiosity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule opbs reno is fully committed to improving educational outcomes for our state. Pbs reno (5.1) and pbs reno pbs kids (5.3) feature 207 hours per week of non-commercial, non-violent programs that educate children while entertaining them at the same time. Most of these programs have free interactive websites, free tablet, and smartphone apps that allow the young ones to continue to interact with their favorite characters beyond the broadcast program. Pbs reno children's content is designed to meet department of education common core standards. Pbs reno viewers enjoy dramatic series on masterpiece that include all creatures great and small: miss scarlett, and endeavour. As usual, pbs won more emmy awards than any other network or cable channel favorites like nova, nature, this old house, antiques roadshow, pbs newshour, and our saturday evening british comedies and mysteries continue to delight viewers, offering programming types simply not found on other channels. Locally, our drama line-up includes thursday night offerings of father brown and other mystery offerings followed with friday evenings featuring masterpiece. The channel is also livestreamed allowing viewers…
$2,401,828 spent60% of program spendingSee schedule oin the 2024-2025 school year, pbs reno education services conducted 6,794 curiosity classroom workshops for pre-k through 4th grade children throughout nine counties in nevada and california: washoe, carson, douglas, humboldt, lyon, elko, storey, white pine, and el dorado. These workshops accounted for 128,087 interactions with area students. In addition, 47,314 books were distributed to participating students to help build their home library. Each workshop is led by a certified facilitator who uses a pbs video, a read aloud, and a fun hands on activity to encourage stem literacy-based learning. Pbs reno's education workshops are available to public, private, parochial, charter, and homeschools. Pbs reno offered the annual pbs kids writers contest for children in grades k-3 and received 3,206 entries in march 2025. Winning stories were shown at the annual awards ceremony and recorded for on-air broadcast and online. The winning stories were also on display at the renown children's hospital and the department of education in carson city. Pbs reno for families provides a curated collection of information relating to health and safety, nature, the outdoors, libraries…
$965,734 spent24% of program spendingSee schedule oarteffects: pbs reno debuted season 11 of arteffects, a weekly series that explores the vibrant arts and cultural scene in northern nevada and northeastern california. All locally produced segments are provided to the national distributor. To date, 167 pbs reno segments have aired around the country on participating pbs member stations. Wild nevada: host chris orr produced season 8, highlighting new recreational opportunities in nevada. Production began in april 2025 and continued into fy 2026. These 13 episodes covered topics like the carson river corridor, e.t. Highway, pony express trail and more. Dave santina hosts wild nevadacast, a weekly podcast series based on the television series. Pbs reno stem works: stem works digital short videos offer a fun, fresh look at careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The videos are geared toward kids aged 9-17 but are entertaining and informative for all ages. These videos are available online and on-air. Pbs reno produces a weekly podcast series based on our vibrant arts and cultural community, hosted by dave santina. Artviews is a weekly arts column authored by a rotating group of leaders in the arts…
$621,374 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,988,936.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $13M (+16%).
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 30% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 28% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 10% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC’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. 2 of the last 8 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
Kurt Mische
President / CEO
Board chair
Christine Fey
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.1M.
9 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 78% · 2019 73% · 2020 74% · 2021 68% · 2022 55% · 2023 58% — 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
48% of CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $924k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: 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 CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC?
- CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC (Nevada) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,751,327 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,220,506). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $16,751,327 in grants to CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $11,220,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 75 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