Kansas · Nonprofit
SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP
SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP (Kansas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,690,930 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,470,060). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Smoky Hills Public Television Corp does
Mission
Smoky hills pbs nourishes our curiosity with telecommunications toenrich people's lives and make kansas a better place to live and work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provides instructional television services to local school districts and extends public television to unserved area of western kansas. Persons served -- approximately 106 stories were submitted for the writer's contest. -- the head start first book club program provided books to approximately 5,063 low-income children in center-based programs throughout our 52 counties. -- the share-a-story program provided approximately 1,482 books.
$1,242,435 spent$328,193 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,242,435.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.5M to $7.6M (+70%).
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 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 13% · 2020 10% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 68% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP’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. 4 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
Shelly Arnberger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $840k → $1.0M.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP’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
SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 83% · 2019 89% · 2020 93% · 2021 84% · 2022 84% · 2023 84% — 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 SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP's funders are still giving 3 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
SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP 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 SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP: 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 SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP?
- SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP (Kansas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,690,930 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,470,060). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $9,690,930 in grants to SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $8,470,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 25 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