Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION
PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,157 to it, the largest being LUTRON FOUNDATION ($71,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Harry C Trexler Estateshared funderslocal
- Public Broadcasting Serviceportfolio match
- Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Harry C Trexler Estateshared funderslocalPA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 120 organizations near you
- Public Broadcasting Serviceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Documentary Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corporation for Public Broadcastingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Storycorps Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Media Group of Southern Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Winthrop H Smith Jr Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Public Radio Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gadomski Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John H and Jan W Ruhle Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cars for Charity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lv Public Telecommunications Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PBS 39 FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION?
- PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,157 to it, the largest being LUTRON FOUNDATION ($71,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $73,157 in grants to PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION?
- LUTRON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $71,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing