Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,615 to it, the largest being BOYD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,011,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Nebraska Public Media Foundation Inc does
Mission
The specific purposes of the Foundation are to support the joint undertaking of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska and State of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission, known as Nebraska Public Media through activities including but not limited to; raising funds to support the development and transmission of public media in the State of Nebraska ; promoting support for and engagement with public media in the State of Nebraska; and engaging in such other activities permissible for an organization exempt under Code Section 501(c)(3) and programs as the Board of Directors shall determine to be in the best interests of the Foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Network, university of nebraska television dept, lincoln, ne for the purpose of program production and acquisition support for broadcast over the nebraska etv network, including distribution over the public broadcasting system.
$5,499,124 spentof which $3,371,984 as grants79% of program spendingProgram services assist operation of non-commerical public radio stations licensed to and operated by the nebraska educational telecommunications commission including program production distributed.
$1,502,334 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,001,458.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $50M to $55M (+9%).
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.
84% of NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC’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. 0 of the last 4 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
Arpi Siyahian
Chair/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $41k → $348k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
27% 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 NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 61% · 2022 42% · 2023 25% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC 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
Organizations like NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Net Commission · exempt
- University of Nebraska Television · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION 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 NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC?
- NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,760,615 to it, the largest being BOYD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,011,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,760,615 in grants to NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC?
- BOYD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,011,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 40 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