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Greater Public

Greater Public (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,120,133 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($870,133). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.2M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$5.0M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Greater Public does

Mission

Through bold leadership, Greater Public (GP) inspires and empowers public media organizations to advance their missions by ensuring a sustainable financial future.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Membership Education and Promotion: The purpose of the Program is to educate public media organizations on fundraising best practices; to develop, research and implement fundraising trends; and to utilize proven fundraising techniques in direct-mail solicitations in furtherance of GP's mission. This program aims to eliminate significant barriers, such as financial costs and minimum quantity requirements, that prevent public media organizations from obtaining access to expertise, best practices, and proven fundraising techniques. The program currently serves 68 public media organizations, and participation is voluntary.

    $2,794,916 spent$3,498,552 earned by the program
    56% of program spending

  2. Public Media Development and Marketing Conference (PMDMC): The Public Media Development and Marketing Conference is an annual event that brings together professionals and organizations in the public media industry to discuss current issues, share best practices, and explore innovative ideas for development and marketing strategies. This conference provides a valuable opportunity for attendees to network with peers and learn from experts in the field.

    $1,131,059 spent$972,372 earned by the program
    23% of program spending

  3. Membership Roundtables: Greater Public continued to offer roundtables and implementable tools that focus on the needs of public media stations by size and programming as well as discipline. A cohort of roundtables were provided for corporate support, sustaining membership management, mid-level/major/planned giving, and digital fundraising.

    $850,560 spent$1,138,814 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

  4. Greater Public continued to offer training programs for new corporate support professionals to help them successfully begin their jobs; a station mid-level leadership training program with a focus on providing tools and honing skills to enhance inclusiveness at public media organizations, and a new Digital Ads for Fundraising training program where participants can learn new ideas and strategies to improve the reach of their digital ads, create cutting edge campaigns and advance into video ads.

    $172,646 spent$104,970 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,949,181.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 115 ($4.8M) Expenses 104 ($4.5M) Net assets 123 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 129 ($5.4M) Expenses 120 ($5.2M) Net assets 139 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 116 ($4.9M) Expenses 111 ($4.8M) Net assets 147 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 121 ($5.1M) Expenses 105 ($4.5M) Net assets 189 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 158 ($6.7M) Expenses 141 ($6.1M) Net assets 230 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 134 ($5.6M) Expenses 122 ($5.3M) Net assets 257 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 171 ($7.2M) Expenses 129 ($5.6M) Net assets 380 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (129)Net assets (380)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $5.9M (+37%).

$2.0M
$2.4M
$3.0M
$3.3M
$3.5M
$4.0M
$4.3M
$5.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$113k
’17
$310k
’18
$210k
’19
$96k
’20
$559k
’21
$549k
’22
$353k
’23
$1.6M
’24
9.0
months of
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

Joyce MacDonald

President & CEO

Board chair

DeLinda Mrowka

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1411131315151715
Joined·+0+5+0+5+0+4+0
No longer listed·3303022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $58k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1

From the IRS filings of Greater Public’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

Greater Public leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% 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 Greater Public.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

Greater Public draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.

DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Greater Public receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.

State$6k
Top programs
  • Membership in Organizations$4k
  • Informational Service$2k

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 Greater Public

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 Texas

Inclusive Communities Project79%Philanthropy Southwest78%Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Inc78%Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council78%Collaborative for Children78%Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc77%Betterhealth a Planned Parenthood Partnership77%Compass Connections77%

Nationally

Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc83%Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc82%Arts Midwest Incorporated82%New Public Inc82%Nashville Public Radio82%Greater Phoenix Leadership Inc82%New England Public Media Inc81%Great Plains Food Bank81%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

35%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Greater Public Services LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Greater Public?
Greater Public (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,120,133 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($870,133). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Greater Public have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,120,133 in grants to Greater Public, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Greater Public?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $870,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Greater Public find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2 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