Michigan · Nonprofit
PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK
PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,367,193 to it, the largest being IRVING S GILMORE FOUNDATION ($543,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Public Media Network does
Mission
The mission of Public Media Network is to empower people through media to amplify creative expression, community dialogue, and cultural understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The services provided by the pmn include, but are not limited to the following: media production training, equipment loan, and programming distribution. Media production training services are provided in vocational education. Also people are taught basic media production skills to be effective in sharing their voice through media. Pmn provides a media production loan program to provide the public with professional field production equipment, video editing equipment, and production studios for telling their story. Pmn manages five local cable access channels and online distribution platforms to amplify local voices in media.
$1,108,449 spent$377,583 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,108,449.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $3.4M (+36%).
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 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 82% · 2021 38% · 2022 61% · 2023 51% · 2024 45% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Ronnie L Coleman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $500 → $470k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 NETWORK’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 MEDIA NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 44% · 2022 90% · 2023 56% — 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
71% of PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
87% of PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $479k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 MEDIA NETWORK
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK: 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 MEDIA NETWORK?
- PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,367,193 to it, the largest being IRVING S GILMORE FOUNDATION ($543,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,367,193 in grants to PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK?
- IRVING S GILMORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $543,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC MEDIA NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 15 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