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WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL
WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,618,416 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($16,605,805). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Wxxi Public Broadcasting Council does
Mission
Wxxi is the essential, life-long educational public media resource for the greater rochester area. Wxxi engages the community with programming that stimulates and expands thought, inspires the spirit, opens cultural horizons and promotes understanding of diverse issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programming/production:wxxi provides a range of national programming and original productions across all its services, which includes four television stations and six radio stations. Wxxi-tv presents a pbs schedule, rich in history, science, nature, arts and non-violent, commercial-free children's programming which is also live streamed. Wxxi-kids 24/7 is a 24-hour children's educational channel, showcasing the best of pbs kids and local education programming which is also live streamed. Wxxi-create is a 24/7 how-to channel, and wxxi-world is a 24/7 news and public affairs channel. Our tv productions include arts infocus, a collaborative arts and culture program with specials on-air and online, voice of the voter debate, and wxxi forums, as well as many award-winning documentaries. Our radio stations include wxxi-fm 105.9/am 1370, an npr member station, which provides in-depth local, regional and statewide news coverage, and a daily two-hour call-in program connections with evan dawson. Wxxo-fm classical 91.5, broadcast and streamed live is rochester's only full-time classical music station, offering local, national and international recordings, as well as local productions like…
$6,472,099 spent$49,342 earned by the program64% of program spendingBroadcasting:wxxi operates four public television stations (wxxi-tv, wxxi-kids 24/7, wxxi-create, wxxi-world); manages the cable channel, city 12 (providing the city of rochester residents with 14 hours a day of targeted, informative and entertaining programming); six public radio stations (wxxi-fm 105.9/am 1370, wxxo-fm 91.5, wxxy-fm 90.3, wrur-fm 88.5, weos-fm 98.7 and with-fm 90.1), and two hd radio channels (fm-hd 91.5-1 and fm-hd 91.5-2).
$2,848,261 spent$56,714 earned by the program28% of program spendingCity is rochester's arts, music, and culture magazine, a monthly print and online news service, which has been published since 1972 and is available throughout the city for free. Wxxi purchased city from its founders in may 2019 and operates city as a subsidiary. Wxxi recognizes the value of city, as the acquisition preserves and expands the quality and depth of local reporting and prioritizes coverage of the arts and culture in the greater rochester area.
$761,443 spent$535,116 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,081,803.
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 2021 to 2022, from $31M to $27M (−13%).
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 28% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 35% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% · 2024 26% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL’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. 5 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.
Board chair
David Tang
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.5M.
17 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 92% · 2019 86% · 2020 78% · 2021 85% · 2022 74% · 2023 75% — 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
61% of WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 2 related entities
- Rochester Area Media Partners LLC · disregarded
- The Little Theatre Film Society · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL: 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 WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL?
- WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,618,416 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($16,605,805). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $20,618,416 in grants to WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $16,605,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL 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 60 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