Florida · Nonprofit
WJCT INC
WJCT INC (Florida) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,682,523 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,187,424). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Wjct Inc does
Mission
Wjct's mission is to use our unique assets as a resource for citizens to come together to celebrate human diversity, experience lifelong learning, and actively engage in matters of civic importance, all to improve the quality of our lives and our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Community enrichment:at wjct public media, we are dedicated to delivering intelligent and innovative programming and services of the highest quality. Our mission is to bring news and information, education, and entertainment directly to homes across the first coast. We serve as an accessible forum for public dialogue and debate, striving to open minds, foster intellectual curiosity, and enhance the quality of life in our community.stewardship:since our first television broadcast in september 1958 and our first radio broadcast in april 1972, we have strived to reflect and respond to the diverse voices of our first coast community with distinction, balance, and respect. We recognize the power of public media and honor our heritage by staying responsive to citizens of all ages, abilities, cultures, and values.education:nothing surpasses our commitment to young learners. More than 60 years ago, when "commercial-free television" was still a novelty, wjct added then cutting-edge programming to its schedule: sesame street and mister rogers' neighborhood. In both their style and content, these programs modeled good character and gave rise to the term "safe haven." parents soon learned…
$6,833,978 spent$263,778 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,833,978.
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.
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 $9.1M to $12M (+29%).
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 39% · 2018 24% · 2019 20% · 2020 20% · 2021 31% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
David Mcgowan
President & CEO
Board chair
Farley Kern
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.6M.
12 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $282k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Public Broadcasting Service). These are real filings, and they are not money WJCT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WJCT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
WJCT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 WJCT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 72% · 2020 75% · 2021 66% · 2022 50% · 2023 47% — 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 WJCT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
WJCT INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding WJCT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17k on record.
- ADVERTISING - GENERAL $15k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
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 WJCT 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jct Services LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WJCT INC: 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 WJCT INC?
- WJCT INC (Florida) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,682,523 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($11,187,424). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WJCT INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $19,682,523 in grants to WJCT INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WJCT INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $11,187,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WJCT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 79 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