Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC
INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,813 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($336,813). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $774k
- Net assets
- $121M
What Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc does
Mission
Independence media enriches lives through programs and services that entertain, educate, and inspire. We believe in the power of television and new technologies to connect communities, promote diversity, and encourage understanding.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
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 2021 to 2022, from $147M to $115M (−22%).
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.
0% of INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Jamila Medley
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $337k → $147k.
From the IRS filings of INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC’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
INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 86% · 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
INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC's revenue fell 92% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA 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 INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC?
- INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,813 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($336,813). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $773,813 in grants to INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $336,813 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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