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Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation (Maine) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,624,150 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($19,865,790). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 161
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $64M
What Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation does
Mission
Every day, Maine Public connects the people of Maine to each other, to the world, and the world to Maine through the open exchange of information, ideas, and cultural content. Maine Public is renowned for creating award-winning programs, as well as airing content from Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and other independent producers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Maine Public launched seven new FM stations which extended Maine Public programming and Emergency Alert System (EAS) capacity to regions around Bethel, Millinocket, Moosehead Lake, and Aroostook and Washington Counties. This FM expansion provides better EAS coverage to underserved areas of Maine and is another significant step in localizing EAS messages. One of Maine Public's long-term goals is to provide EAS messages at a more local level than the statewide blanketing as is done today. A second goal in Maine Public's mission is to provide signals to places and people that we do not reach. We strive to deliver our signals to all Maine citizens, regardless of where they live and these new signals went a long way towards that goal. Additionally, during this period, we added new local programming to Maine Public Classical, engaged communities across Maine with a news department "listening tour" to see what stories and issues are most relevant to Mainers in different areas of the state, and improved our Maine Public App with better, free access to all our content and services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Maine Public is the only statewide Public Media service providing local and national content over multiple radio signals, two distinct radio services (news and classical music), four television channels and online to Maine residents, free of charge. Maine Public is committed to bringing local, national and international news, public affairs, and cultural programming that informs and enriches our citizens.Maine Public continues to focus on providing our content on every possible platform no matter where people are in the state or their income level. Adding PBS Kids programming to the Maine Public App is just one example of delivering access at no direct cost to users -- wherever we can.Public Outreach Maine Public recognizes the need to engage the Maine community in both our content and mission and to ensure that we are meeting the needs and preferences of all Mainers. Maine Public connects with our viewers and listeners through a variety of mechanisms including Community Advisory Board (CAB) meetings that are open to the public, Board of Trustees meetings that include opportunities for public comment, community events that include state-wide free public screenings of national and…
$14,391,554 spent$33,300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,391,554.
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 $35M to $44M (+28%).
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 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 6% · 2023 26% · 2024 25% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 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.
Chief executive
Richard Schneider
President & CEO
Board chair
Adam Lee
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 79 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $3.6M.
15 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $344k from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Public Broadcasting Service). These are real filings, and they are not money Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation raised.
From the IRS filings of Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 89% · 2019 48% · 2020 69% · 2021 56% · 2022 56% · 2023 64% — 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
60% of Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record — $3.4M federal, $6k state.
- Department of Agriculture$3.4M
- Advertising - Radio$6k
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 Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation: 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 Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation?
- Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation (Maine) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,624,150 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($19,865,790). 105 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $36,624,150 in grants to Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation, 105 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $19,865,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 161 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