Indiana · Nonprofit
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,368,723 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,569,112). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trusteeshared funderslocalportfolio match
- American Documentary Incportfolio match
- National Public Radio Incportfolio match
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.
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 13% · 2018 10% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 13% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $871k → $1.0M.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 92% · 2019 97% · 2020 85% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 86% — 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
21% of FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 31 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trusteeshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- American Documentary Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Public Radio Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Media Group of Southern Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Storycorps Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert Carrie and Bobbie Steck Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 50 organizations near you
- The St Joseph Community Health Foundation Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 35 organizations near you
- United Way of Allen County Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
- Parkview Hospital Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you
- M E Raker Foundation Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 76 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- The Donald F Wood and Darlene M Richardson Foundation Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC?
- FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,368,723 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,569,112). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $9,368,723 in grants to FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $8,569,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing