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SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC

SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,197,948 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,492,660). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$9.2M
Net assets
$2.9M
11/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Southern Oregon Public Television Inc does

Mission

To provide high-quality television programming for viewers of all ages, with an emphasis on programming relating to education and the arts; and such projects relevant to offering regional telecommunications services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Program purchase, local productions, educational programs for the general public.

    $1,042,815 spent$3,979 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. Broadcasting and engineering expenses associated with maintaining property and equipment associated with broadcasting programming to the general public.

    $180,304 spent
    15% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,223,119.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 112 ($2.3M) Expenses 104 ($2.1M) Net assets 109 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 111 ($2.2M) Expenses 110 ($2.3M) Net assets 106 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 128 ($2.6M) Expenses 105 ($2.2M) Net assets 138 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 141 ($2.8M) Expenses 108 ($2.2M) Net assets 186 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 131 ($2.6M) Expenses 111 ($2.3M) Net assets 213 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 115 ($2.3M) Expenses 120 ($2.5M) Net assets 201 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 139 ($2.8M) Expenses 124 ($2.6M) Net assets 219 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 136 ($2.7M) Expenses 129 ($2.6M) Net assets 225 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (129)Net assets (225)Peer revenue range

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 $2.1M to $2.8M (+34%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$2.1M
$2.8M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 44% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 48% · 2021 52% · 2022 39% · 2023 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$49k
’17
$114k
’18
−$36k
’19
$418k
’20
$617k
’21
$346k
’22
−$157k
’23
$239k
’24
$81k
’25
9.2
months of
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

Phillip Meyer

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed839888101011
Joined·+1+7+1+1+1+6+1+3
No longer listed·61211412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $930k → $911k.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC’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

SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC.

92%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 99% · 2019 75% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — 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

42% of SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states in all.

OR
CT
CA
VA
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve9.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.

State$14k
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$14k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

46% of spending goes to programs.

Program 46%Management 27%Fundraising 27%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC?
SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,197,948 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,492,660). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $9,197,948 in grants to SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $8,492,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 19 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