Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION
COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION (Colorado) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,499,433 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($5,634,553). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Colorado Public Television does
Mission
Pbs12 colorado is re-imagining how public media can serve the community. Content: creating unique, local content that shares stories and viewpoints that might otherwise be lost. Education: preparing the next generation of content creators with the experiences and mentorships that will empower them to carry forward a rich tradition of ethical storytelling. Service: leveraging our unique talents, technologies, and facilities to provide growth opportunities at no or low cost to community organizations and individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming and production - any functions related to the acquisition, scheduling and broadcasting of television programs of educational and informational content geared to the interest of the community as well as entertainment specials not available locally. Also producing television programming that is not acquired and the related functions to produce such programs. Local public affairs covering community issues and international topics are of major focus.
$2,657,721 spent$2,831,688 earned by the program61% of program spendingTransmission - functions related to the maintenance, installation and dissemination of the technical apparatus relating to televised programs.
$940,961 spent22% of program spendingPublic information - any activity related to increasing public awareness of provided services. Print information and increasing electronic activity provide the tools to do so. Interactive community relations regarding services is a major goal.
$771,569 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,370,251.
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 2017 to 2018, from $8.1M to $9.8M (+21%).
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: 2018 11% · 2019 17% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% · 2024 10% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Dessa Bokides
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $715k → $1.1M.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 80% · 2019 68% · 2020 76% · 2021 90% · 2022 78% · 2023 48% — 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
38% of COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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
- Five Points Media Center Holdings Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION?
- COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION (Colorado) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,499,433 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($5,634,553). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $7,499,433 in grants to COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $5,634,553 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 51 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