Ohio · Nonprofit
PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO
PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,552,668 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($10,233,487). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwest Ohio does
Mission
Wgte is dedicated to enabling personal development and civic improvement by the innovative use of technology to educate, enlighten, enrich, engage, entertain, empower, and explore.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fm programming and production: wgte fm (toledo), wgle (lima), wgbe (bryan), and wgde (defiance) annually produce 54 local audio programs and podcasts, along with broadcasting 8,760 hours of audio npr and local programming to approximately 775,600 broadcast listeners and more than 90,000 online listeners located in northwest ohio and southeast michigan.
$777,228 spent21% of program spendingTv programming & production: wgte tv and wgte hdtv produced 196 video productions and provides adult and kids programming to nearly 1,000,000 households weekly across northwest ohio and southeast michigan.
$1,387,888 spent38% of program spendingTv education services: wgte's educational services focus on improving reading and literacy skills for pre-k - 3 low-income and minority children and school readiness skill development for pre-k low-income and minority children, including helping teachers and families to support their children's learning.
$265,070 spent$375,854 earned by the program7% of program spendingTv & fm engineering:engineers maintain, update, and manage audio and video production and broadcast equipment at the main center, while also providing maintenance and update services to one tv broadcast transmitter, and four radio broadcast transmitters housed at four locations placed across northwest ohio.
$883,352 spent24% of program spendingPublic information:annually, wgte's program guide, "be connected," is produced and mailed to 8,200 households. Tv and radio programs are promoted via broadcast, print, and online. Wgte annually connects with more than 250,000 users online via all leading social media platforms.
$317,555 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,631,093.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $14M to $16M (+16%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 10% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO’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. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.3M.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO’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
PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 94% · 2019 85% · 2020 92% · 2021 92% · 2022 91% · 2023 81% — 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
60% of PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $920k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ohio Educational Television Stations · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: 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 PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO?
- PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,552,668 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($10,233,487). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $11,552,668 in grants to PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $10,233,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 26 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing