Colorado · Nonprofit
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 285 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,653,407 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($11,243,000). 190 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 285
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $47M
What Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc does
Mission
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming and production expenses consist of staff and related expenses to broadcast three distinct formats cpr news and krcc, cpr classical, and indie 102.3, on air 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as well as three distinct websites, cpr.org, krcc.org, and denverite.com. Broadcast radio audience reach was approximately 531,000 listeners weekly (source: nielsen fall 2024/spring 2025). Monthly digital audience averages included 956,000 online visitors for cpr.org/krcc.org, 323,000 visitors to denverite.com, and 212,000 streaming listeners. Podcasts produced by colorado public radio had an average of 19,000 subscribers weekly, and there were 115,000 subscribers to cpr and krcc newsletters.
$17,054,450 spent$5,082,462 earned by the program85% of program spendingBroadcasting expenses consist of staff and related expenses to support the programming, including maintenance of all transmission sites and technical systems that support a statewide network of 52 transmitters and translators.
$3,065,021 spent15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,119,471.
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 $55M to $62M (+13%).
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 8% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO 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. 2 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.
Board chair
Lori Bergen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 76 funders to 124 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $14M.
35 of 285 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 OF COLORADO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 285 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
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 OF COLORADO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 30% · 2020 37% · 2021 34% · 2022 25% · 2023 72% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
56% of PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $19M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 OF COLORADO 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 PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Sunlight Peak LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC?
- PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC (Colorado) receives grants from 285 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,653,407 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($11,243,000). 190 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC have?
- IRS filings report 285 organizations giving $42,653,407 in grants to PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC, 190 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,243,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 285 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