Indiana · Nonprofit
MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION
MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,656,053 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,847,025). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation does
Mission
Wnit is a trusted, community-owned public media source that is dedicated to inspire, inform, educate, entertain and unify the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Broadcast - costs are associated with the creation of local original productions, on-air operations, and maintenance of equipment. Original content includes:6 weekly program series- educationcounts michiana- experience michiana- politically speaking- economic outlook- dinner & a book- outdoor elementsperiodic special programs-legends of michiana: loren & lowell hamel-echoes of the great migration: family stories of resilience-my wnit story-legends of michiana: lynn coleman
$1,275,043 spent$66,266 earned by the program54% of program spendingProgramming - the purchase and scheduling of programs, as well as the review of program content.
$1,095,046 spent46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,370,089.
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 $7.1M to $6.3M (−11%).
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 14% · 2018 14% · 2019 16% · 2020 11% · 2021 26% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% · 2024 10% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Susan Ohmer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $910k → $1.3M.
16 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION’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
MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 86% · 2019 77% · 2020 72% · 2021 85% · 2022 85% · 2023 72% — 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
36% of MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MICHIANA 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% 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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MICHIANA 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 MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION?
- MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,656,053 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,847,025). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $11,656,053 in grants to MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $8,847,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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