North Dakota · Nonprofit
Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc
Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,669,615 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($16,349,920). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc does
Mission
Prairie Public Broadcasting provides quality radio, television, and public media services that educate, involve, and inspire the people of the prairie region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Prairie Public Broadcasting, headquartered in Fargo, ND, is a non-profit organization and community licensee that provides public television services to North Dakota, northwestern Minnesota, southern Manitoba, and parts of Montana and South Dakota; and public radio service to North Dakota and worldwide via online streaming. In addition to broadcasting services, Prairie Public provides a wide range of educational, technological, and online services to educate, involve, and inspire the people of the prairie region. Television schedules, radio schedules, and coverage maps and frequencies are available at prairiepublic.org.
$6,340,915 spent$457,594 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,340,915.
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 $28M to $32M (+15%).
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 18% · 2018 12% · 2019 14% · 2020 27% · 2021 15% · 2022 14% · 2023 23% · 2024 21% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
John E Harris III
President/CEO
Board chair
Sandra Holmberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $1.9M.
9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 95% · 2019 90% · 2020 89% · 2021 94% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% — 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
47% of Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 10 states in all.
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
Prairie Public Broadcasting 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
Government funding Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.
- Department of Commerce$175k
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 Prairie Public Broadcasting 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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- PPB Ventures LLC (dissolved 41525) · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Prairie Public Broadcasting 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc?
- Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,669,615 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($16,349,920). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $17,669,615 in grants to Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $16,349,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 36 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