Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY
THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,834,541 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($7,600,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $60M
What The Fred Rogers Company does
Mission
The Fred Rogers Company was founded by fred rogers in 1971 to produce mister rogers' neighborhood (television's longest-running program for children). Following its founder's death in 2003, the company has expanded to become a major supplier of childen's programming for pbs, with six series regularly broadcasted. Its signature property, daniel tiger's neighborhood, supports healthy emotional, social, and intellectual growth for the very youngest viewers, and embodies the philosophy and values of fred rodgers. The Fred Rogers Company works in two broad areas:1. Creating engaging, educational content for young children in broadcast and digital media, including television, websites, and apps. 2. Extending the impact of this content by partnering with others, including nonprofits, reasearch organizations, and pbs member stations, to provide resources to accompany its programs for parents, teachers, and other people who work with children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Donkey hodie is a puppet series inspired by the work of fred rogers through his mission to help young viewers navigate the frustrations and challenges of childhood. Donkie hodie premired on pbs may 3, 2021.
$27,025,914 spent$2,128,809 earned by the program52% of program spendingAlma's way is an animated series created by sonia manzano that premiered on pbs october 4, 2021. Alma rivera shares her dilemmas with the audience and demonstrates that with critical thinking and understanding others' points of view she can think it through and solve the problem.
$11,360,429 spent$967,749 earned by the program22% of program spendingDaniel tiger's neighborhood premired on pbs in september 2012, and was warmly received by children, parents, and educators alike. This animated series, for a new generation of children aged 2-4, tells it's engaging stories about the life of a preschooler using musical strategies grounded in fred rogers' landmark social-emotional curriculum. Through imagination, creativity, and music, daniel and his friends learn the key social skills necessary for school and for life. The broadcast series is regualrly one of the most-viewed by preschool children.
$6,491,093 spent$2,961,747 earned by the program13% of program spendingOdd squad is a live-action, educational television series for children ages 6 to 8 that emphasizes the use of effective mathematical practices and critical mathetmatic concepts and skills to ultimatley solve each case. In other words: odd is the problem, math is the solution.
$3,444,903 spent$3,442,918 earned by the program7% of program spendingPeg + cat is an animated math-based series for children 3-5 years old, which premiered in the fall of 2013. Each episode follows the adorable, spirited peg and her sidekick cat as they embark on adventures, solve problems together, and learn foundational math concepts and skills. Peg + cat inspires preschoolers' natural curiosity about math and helps them develop new skills and strategies for solving problems creatively in their daily lives. Through engaging characters, whimsical stories and songs, the show celebrates the ways in which math plays a role in their world.
$256,273 spent0% of program spendingThrough the woods is an emmy award winning animated preschool series that follows rider and his dog wolfie as they explore the "nearby nature" that many preschoolers can relate to. In each 3-minute story, rider wonders about something he saw or heard in the small woods behind his house, observes an animal or plant to learn more and then shares his discoveries with his grammie.
$50,537 spent0% of program spendingOther program services include supporting our broadcast series by providing resources for pbs member stations, partnering with organizations conducting research into children's educational media, and providing extra content for parents and teachers at pbskids.org. We also maintain our own website, www.fredrogers.org, which provides a rich resource on parenting and offers separate newsletters designed both for parents and professionals. In conjunction with the website, the company offers educational training manuals, books, dvd's, videos, and other licensed products.
$3,079,046 spent$53,736 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,708,195.
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 2024 to 2025, from $99M to $69M (−30%).
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 3% · 2019 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Paul Siefken
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $288k → $2.6M.
5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% 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 THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 44% · 2019 72% · 2020 44% · 2021 65% · 2022 22% · 2023 53% — 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
42% of THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY'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
THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $887k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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 THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
28%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Striped Tiger LLC · disregarded
- Odd Produtions LLC · disregarded
- Feline Features LLC · partnership
- Think It Through Media LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY?
- THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,834,541 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($7,600,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $20,834,541 in grants to THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $7,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 40 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