Indiana · Nonprofit
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,604,510 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,569,112). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Fort Wayne Public Television Inc does
Mission
Pbs fort wayne engages our community through content and collaborations that educate, inform, inspire, and entertain.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pbs fort wayne is a critical, free, over-the-air educational, cultural, and civic broadcast service, reaching more than 800,000 persons in northeast indiana and northwest ohio. Since 1975, pbs fort wayne remains the only public television station in northeast indiana, and the only locally-owned & operated full-power television service in our community. In addition to nationally distributed programs, pbs fort wayne provides a full schedule of locally-produced documentaries, public affairs, health, cultural, and community information programs monday-friday at 7:30 pm. Pbs fort wayne's service includes more than 200 hours each week of high-quality early learning programs for families. (continued on schedule o)
$2,287,709 spent$390,324 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,287,709.
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 $4.4M to $5.4M (+23%).
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 (63% 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
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
Megan Flohr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 32 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 89% 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
20% of FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 97% 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. $410k 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.
Against its field
FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION 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 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC?
- FORT WAYNE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,604,510 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 32 organizations giving $9,604,510 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.
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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 32 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing