Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,233 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($279,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $878k
- Net assets
- $0
What Corporation for Public Broadcasting does
Mission
To ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecom services.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Grants and agreements that support the operations and infrastructure of the public media system - see schedule o-community service grants: unrestricted general operating grants made to qualified public television and radio stations.-public broadcasting interconnection sytem: funding is utilized to maintain and modernize public television and public radio interconnection systems and to create digital infrastructure and efficiencies within the public media system. Interconnection systems are the set of technologies and operations requried to exchange content and metadata between content producers, aggregators and stations.-fema next generation warning system ("ngws") includes grants from the department of homeland security for public media entities to replace and upgrade infrastructure to expand alert, warning, and interoperable communications, creating a more resilient and secure public alerting system. The program prioritizes public media stations serving underserved communities, primarily in rural and tribal areas. Fema awarded cpb a total of $136.0 million to establish and implement the next generation warning system grant program: $40.0 million with a period of performance that…
$493,802,082 spentof which $490,401,208 as grants77% of program spendingDevelopment and support of high quality new and innovative television and radio programming - see schedule o.-television programming represents expenses for development and support of high-quality national television programming and projects with educational or cultural value that might not otherwise be supported by the marketplace.-radio program fund represents expenses for the development and production of high-quality, new and innovative radio services and series, the work of independent radio producers, programming for underserved or unserved audiences, innovative content forms and programs that might not otherwise be supported by the commercial marketplace.national program production and acquisition grants are restricted grants made to qualified public radio stations that must be used for the production, acquisition, promotion or distribution of national radio programs that are of high quality, creative and reflect society's diversity.-ready to learn: a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the u.s. Department of education (ed) that supported the development of educational television and digital media targeted at preschool and early elementary school children and their…
$150,494,275 spentof which $149,732,811 as grants23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $644,296,357.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $278M to $0 (−100%).
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 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 96% · 2026 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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
Patricia De Stacy Harrison
President & CEO (thru 02/26)
Board chair
Ruby Calvert
Board chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $750 → $34k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 47% · 2021 81% · 2022 43% · 2023 57% — 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
27% of CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
78% of CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $195k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $684k 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.
Government funding CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $440.7M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$268.7M
- Department of Education$172.0M
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 CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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
- Literary Classics Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $878,233 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($279,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $878,233 in grants to CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $279,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 25 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