New York · Nonprofit
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,801,461 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($17,792,481). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Western New York Public Broadcasting Association does
Mission
We engage our communities through education, exploration, and entertainment - everywhere - including assisting partners in achieving the same.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wned-tv is a full-service public television station offering instructional, cultural, and children's programming 24 hours/day. Wned-tv, known as btpm pbs, has 2 million monthly cumulative listeners and viewers. Content includes nationally and locally licensed programming and original content including compact history, let's go!, and compact science. Btpm pbs consists of two sub-channels btpm create and btpm pbs kids. Content is also shared on streaming applications such as the corporate website (btpm.org), youtube channel (youtube.com/buffalotorontopublicmedia), and social media platforms.
$5,746,988 spent70% of program spendingWbfo-fm, woln-fm, and wubj-fm operate primarily as 24-hour news and information radio stations. The stations, known as btpm npr, has 2 million monthly cumulative listeners. Wbfo-fm has two sub-channels on hd: wbfo hd2/btpm the bridge has a aaa format and features local artists while wbfo hd3/btpm radio bilingue provides both english and spanish programming.
$1,798,791 spent22% of program spendingWned-fm and wnja-fm operate primarily as 24-hour classical music stations. The stations, known as btpm classical has 2 million monthly cumulative listeners and features local composers and musicians, engages with young people through stunts such as featuring high school musicals on air, and provides free, monthly performances at the station building.
$704,414 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,250,193.
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 2019 to 2020, from $19M to $20M (+10%).
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 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 10% · 2020 9% · 2021 15% · 2022 14% · 2023 9% · 2024 9% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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.
Chief executive
Tom Calderone
President & CEO
Board chair
Cynthia E Vance
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.1M.
8 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $13M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Wned Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 98% · 2019 82% · 2020 83% · 2021 86% · 2022 93% · 2023 92% — 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
35% of WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $578k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $202k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$102k
- Department of Justice$99k
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 WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Wned Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION?
- WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,801,461 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($17,792,481). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $19,801,461 in grants to WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $17,792,481 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN NEW YORK PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 41 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