Washington · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF KSPS
FRIENDS OF KSPS (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,635,197 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,330,868). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Friends of Ksps does
Mission
Ksps provides on-air, online and multi-media programs that entertain, engage and educate to enrich all the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Primary program service - ksps pbs provides trusted educational, cultural, and public affairs programming through free over-the-air television, cable, satellite, livestreaming, on-demand platforms, and digital media. The organization serves approximately 2 million viewers throughout eastern washington, northern idaho, western montana, northeastern oregon, and portions of western canada. During the year, ksps pbs broadcast approximately 35,000 hours of programming across its four television channels, while also making content available through ksps.org, the pbs app, and other digital platforms. Programming includes children's educational content, news and public affairs, arts and culture, science, history, civic affairs, workforce development, and locally produced programs that reflect the communities served.
$3,864,619 spent$277,188 earned by the program70% of program spendingEducation & community services - ksps pbs develops and delivers educational services that support learners, educators, families, and community partners throughout the region. The organization provides classroom resources, professional development, educational events, digital learning tools, and outreach programs designed to improve educational outcomes and promote lifelong learning. Ksps pbs also convenes community conversations, screenings, and public events that strengthen civic engagement, media literacy, and cultural understanding. As the region's public television licensee, ksps pbs supports public safety by participating in the emergency alert system and providing resilient, free over-the-air access to trusted information during emergencies.
$938,469 spent17% of program spendingAudience services & member engagement - ksps pbs supports its audiences through member services, digital communications, community outreach, and public information. The organization maintains relationships with approximately 25,000 active and recently active members, provides program information through its website, email, social media, and customer service channels, and engages audiences through events and partnerships that expand access to trusted public media.
$721,992 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,525,080.
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 2022 to 2023, from $7.8M to $11M (+44%).
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 26% · 2018 22% · 2019 21% · 2020 23% · 2021 27% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of FRIENDS OF KSPS’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Kristine Meyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.4M.
6 of 25 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $720 from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Empire Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF KSPS raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF KSPS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FRIENDS OF KSPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 FRIENDS OF KSPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 95% · 2019 83% · 2020 85% · 2021 95% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of FRIENDS OF KSPS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
FRIENDS OF KSPS draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $741k 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
FRIENDS OF KSPS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FRIENDS OF KSPS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67k on record.
- Department of the Interior$67k
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 FRIENDS OF KSPS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF KSPS: 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 FRIENDS OF KSPS?
- FRIENDS OF KSPS (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,635,197 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,330,868). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF KSPS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $12,635,197 in grants to FRIENDS OF KSPS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF KSPS?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $11,330,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF KSPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing