California · Nonprofit
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,166,112 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($36,153,753). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 129
- Grants received
- $76M
- Net assets
- $105M
What Public Media Group of Southern California does
Mission
We use the power of media for public good. We strengthen the civic fabric of southern california, share our distinctive perspective with the rest of the nation, and provide our community with an essential connection to a wider world. We are creating a new public media model that is multi-platform, diversified, modern and built around high-quality content with distinctive brands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming and production - we are dedicated to creating original programs that reflect our community, as well as sharing the full schedule of pbs programs that viewers love and trust. We tell stories that matter through our award-winning content that covers a wide variety of important topics with series like artbound, lost la, variety studio: actors on actors and earth focus.
$14,309,517 spent47% of program spendingDistribution pbs socal is available to nearly 22 million people in southern california across 7 channels for free over-the-air. The library of pbs socal original programs are also available to stream anytime and anywehre at pbssocal.org and mobile and connected device platforms through the pbs and pbs kids apps that are available for download for free on ios and android devices, roko, samsung, apple tv, android tv, youtube tv, fire tv and chromecast.
$12,655,160 spent$46,144 earned by the program41% of program spendingProgram guides for all pbs socal channels are published on our website that is available to the general public. Additionally, in 2025 a quarterly publication was sent to all pbs socal members highlighting various upcoming programs, community events and initiatives as well as featuring editorial letters from various staff members and station talent. Marketing materials are produced that highlight various educational pbs programs (both on-air and in person) which result in building awareness of the organization's commitment to keeping the community informed and engaged. Viewers can also sign up to receive the weekly pbs socal membership email newsletter as well as weekly email blasts.
$3,628,752 spentof which $326,000 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,593,429.
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 2017 to 2018, from $88M to $62M (−29%).
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 2% · 2018 8% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’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. 4 of the last 8 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
Andrew Russell
President & CEO
Board chair
Anne Gates
Director/board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $10M.
28 of 129 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 129 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 MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 62% · 2019 74% · 2020 46% · 2021 55% · 2022 58% · 2023 38% — 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
46% of PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'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
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M 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
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 54 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
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 PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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 California
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
89%
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
- Crt (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: 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 PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (California) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,166,112 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($36,153,753). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 129 organizations giving $76,166,112 in grants to PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $36,153,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 129 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