Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC
ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,485,971 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($17,629,087). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 101
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $64M
What St Louis Regional Public Media Inc does
Mission
St. Louis regional public media (d/b/a nine pbs), a pbs affiliate rated in the most-watched public tv stations, serves as the region's story-teller - broadcasting, producing and sharing those stories on four digital video channels, a website and social media. The station provides service to the community far beyond broadcast television through its community engagement initiatives that connect people to assistance with critical needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Broadcasting and programming:to acquire and broadcast programs that provide the population of the greater metropolitan st. Louis region and surrounding counties and the south-central illinois region with nationally produced pbs programs across a variety of program genres such as: in the news and documentary genre: pbs news, amanpour and company, bbc world news, washington week, frontline, and independent lens. In the children's genre: sesame street, carl the collector, daniel tiger's neighborhood, lyla in the loop, molly of denali, weather hunters, odd squad, phoebe and jay, wild kratts, and many more. Programs that add to life-long learning and enrichment such as nova, nature, antiques roadshow, this old house, finding your roots, masterpiece, american masters, best of joy of painting, and many more. Nine pbs is consistently ranked as one of the most-watched public television stations in the nation. Nine pbs broadcasts its programs over four distinct digital channels: nine pbs, nine pbs kids, nine world, and nine create.
$3,834,270 spent42% of program spendingCommunity engagement and education:we are working to ensure our community understands both the challenges holding our region back and the opportunities that can move us forward. Through our nationally recognized model for engagement, nine pbs grounds its work in the voices and needs of the community. We convene stakeholders to listen and learn, elevate diverse perspectives, and tailor our engagement to authentically reflect the people we serve. Just as importantly, we close the loop - reporting back on progress and outcomes to ensure transparency and accountability. This approach ensures our engagement is not just meaningful, but action-oriented - rooted in conversation, collaboration, and measurable impact.these efforts are especially critical as we respond to urgent regional needs. Nearly half of third graders are not reading at grade level, and the vast majority of children are not enrolled in accredited preschool programs. To address these challenges, nine pbs's early learning initiative focuses on a "highest need, highest impact" approach, aligning closely with regional partners to improve third-grade literacy, strengthen school readiness, and equip caring adults with tools…
$1,243,496 spent14% of program spendingProduction:our platforms online, on-air, and in the community are dedicated to sharing stories of the people, places, organizations, and solutions helping our community flourish. Our flagship content series "living st. Louis" highlights diverse topics including arts, environment, health, community, and history. "donnybrook," airing consistently since 1987, provides a forum for five st. Louis journalists to discuss key local issues in public policy, education, transportation, and more. Our program, "listen, st. Louis," is a podcast and digital series where host carol daniel interviews local people and organizations to provide context and clarity about issues affecting the st. Louis community. We've also created special content and series, such as "what do I do with this?" exploring how to recycle the not easily recyclable items, citizen's agenda: race for mayor, percy green: man of action, and our tornado townhall following the may 16 tornado. All focused on uplifting underrepresented voices, engaging our community and ensuring we understand our history to help us move into a productive future.
$2,706,366 spent29% of program spendingPublic information:to inform viewers of scheduled programs and services and to supply information about nine pbs activities and impact on the communities it serves, the station publishes and distributes an award-winning program guide to over 45,000 members and other constituents. The program guide also features articles about programs and other events and initiatives of nine pbs. The station has a robust website that provides program information, video streaming of programs, and links to other websites which serve to connect the community with each other and provide information about other community services and resources.
$1,417,279 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,201,411.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $32M to $68M (+108%).
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 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% · 2024 15% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA 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. 1 of the last 5 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
Amy Shaw
President and CEO
Board chair
Ashley Kemper
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.0M.
14 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.1M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater St Louis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 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
ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 91% · 2019 84% · 2020 75% · 2021 65% · 2022 71% · 2023 58% — 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
48% of ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC'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
ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Videonine-Medianine Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC?
- ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC (Missouri) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,485,971 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($17,629,087). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $34,485,971 in grants to ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $17,629,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 101 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