California · Nonprofit
KVIE INC
KVIE INC (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,194,125 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($18,210,182). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Kvie Inc does
Mission
The mission of kvie is to inspire you to explore the world and connect with your community through the integrity of public media.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Broadcasting from california's capital, pbs kvie is a valuable part of the 16-county sacramento-stockton-modesto television market. The service also extends to another 12 counties outside the dma, serving viewers in 28 of the state's 58 counties. Pbs kvie provides educational programming and services through television, online content, and live engagement screenings and events. As a pbs station, pbs kvie's national and local productions work together to engage the mind and spirit to promote personal and community growth. As the only locally owned and managed television station in the 20th largest television market in the united states, pbs kvie reflects the community back to itself by continued on schedule o.creating and presenting programs about its past, present and future, providing a springboard for engagement, discussion and life-long learning.pbs kvie expanded its productions to include more key local services, including new local programs in the areas of arts, education, environment, local history, health, civic issues, and regional lifestyle. Through new and engaging content, pbs kvie's online audiences grew on kvie.org, kviekids.org, and through new social media outlets.…
$7,635,814 spent$1,320,756 earned by the program100% of program spendingAs an educational broadcaster, pbs kvie is known for its pbs kids offerings like "sesame street and "daniel tiger's neighborhood," presenting 9,231 hours of educational children's programming across our main high-definition channel and our 24-hour pbs kids channel in fy24.every day, children across our region of california embark on amazing adventures and make new discoveries through pbs kids programs on pbs kvie. The new series "lyla in the loop" premiered on february 5, 2024. It's a funny and engaging new animated series for kids ages 4-8 about lyla loops and her fantastical blue sidekick, stu, who use creative and continued on schedule o.strategic problem-solving and critical thinking skills to help their family, friends, and community.in addition, kvie partnered with the smud museum of science & curiosity to present pbs kvie curiosity day at mosac. Held on march 23, 2024, at mosac, the day centered around fun for the whole family inspired by pbs kids programming. The day featured hands-on activities, a scavenger hunt, exhibits, a planetarium show, and special guests peg, cat, and curious george.
Pbs kvie engaged our community through several in-person screenings and events in fy24. Kvie held two preview screenings in connection with new documentaries. The preview for "the american buffalo" by ken burns was held on october 12, 2023, at kvie and featured representatives from the intertribal buffalo council and fort belknap indian reservation in addition to a local filmmaker. The preview screening for "gospel" by henry louis gates, jr., was held on february 6, 2024, at kvie and featured pastors from calvary christian center, center of praise ministries, and south continued on schedule o.sacramento christian center. In addition, a screening party was held at the crest theatre to celebrate the return of "all creatures great and small on masterpiece" with a screening of the first episode of season four on december 4, 2023. The evening featured trivia and photos of guests' pets on the big screen before the screening. We also welcomed travel expert rick steves for an evening lecture at the crest theatre on december 4, 2023. Guests got to hear tips and stories to help plan their own upcoming trips to europe. We welcomed pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist lowell…
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,635,814.
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 2024 to 2025, from $45M to $53M (+19%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 5% · 2023 13% · 2024 8% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of KVIE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Cyril Shah
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.5M.
13 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $678k from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sacramento Region Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money KVIE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KVIE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
KVIE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 KVIE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 88% · 2020 72% · 2021 89% · 2022 86% · 2023 82% — 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
53% of KVIE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
KVIE INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
KVIE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KVIE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$15k
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 KVIE 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kvie Real Property Holdings LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KVIE 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 KVIE INC?
- KVIE INC (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,194,125 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($18,210,182). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KVIE INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $21,194,125 in grants to KVIE INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KVIE INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $18,210,182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KVIE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 51 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing