Oregon · Nonprofit
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING (Oregon) receives grants from 202 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,963,402 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($36,511,144). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58M
- Funders on record
- 202
- Grants received
- $65M
- Net assets
- $162M
What Oregon Public Broadcasting does
Mission
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oOregon Public Broadcasting (opb) is an independent, nonprofit media organization serving communities across oregon and the pacific northwest. Powered by the generous support of members, opb connects people through trusted journalism that is freely accessible to everyone. Guided by public service and a commitment to equity, we deliver in-depth, fact-driven coverage of politics, science and the environment, arts and culture, education and more. Opb shares stories and programs wherever people seek them: on opb.org, opb radio and tv, the opb news app, social media, streaming video including opb passport, podcasts, or our daily "first look and other email newsletters. We aim to give the people of this region the information they need to make informed decisions about issues that impact their lives. Our reporting seeks to connect people across communities and go deeper into what makes this region special. Opb's growing journalism operation is one of the largest in the pacific northwest. Our team of reporters, producers and editors located all across the region provide daily coverage, investigative reporting, in depth documentaries, immersive podcasts and much more. They…
$33,555,588 spent$1,002,375 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $33,555,588.
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 2020 to 2021, from $104M to $133M (+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 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING’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 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
Rachael Smolkin
President & CEO
Board chair
Rukaiyah Adams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 55 funders to 100 funders, grant income rose $5.1M → $8.2M.
29 of 202 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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 202 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
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 60% · 2019 55% · 2020 46% · 2021 54% · 2022 52% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
61% of OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING holds deeper cash reserves 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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record — $55k federal, $3.0M state.
- National Science Foundation$55k
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$2.0M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$685k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$243k
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$57k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$29k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$5k
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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- R273084 LLC · disregarded
- Charitable Remainder Trust (6) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: 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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING?
- OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING (Oregon) receives grants from 202 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,963,402 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($36,511,144). 143 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING have?
- IRS filings report 202 organizations giving $64,963,402 in grants to OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING, 143 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $36,511,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 202 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