Grants for television broadcasters

Name: Top 25 grants made to television producing and broadcasting nonprofits
Creator: Cause IQ
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204 television producing and broadcasting nonprofits received at least $306.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 996 grants made from 706 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 706 foundations, 88% made just a single grant to tv broadcasters, and 2% made grants to four or more tv broadcasters. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$306,662,401

Total grant dollars given to television broadcasters

996

Number of grants made annually to television broadcasters

706

Number of grantmakers funding television broadcasters

$1,000

Median grant size to television broadcasters

Foundations that support television producing and broadcasting nonprofits

Out of all grants made to television broadcasters, 78% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 99% of the dollar-value of grants to tv broadcasters. Foundations funding tv broadcasters also made grants to food banks, multiservice human service organizations, international humanitarian organizations, theaters, and land conservation groups.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	551
Medium	85
Large	70

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	16
Private	625
Corporate	37
Other	28

Grants made

Grants made to tv broadcasters	Number of grantmakers
1	627
2-3	58
4-10	12
11+	9

Top 10 foundations supporting television producing and broadcasting nonprofits

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to tv broadcasters	Number of grants made to tv broadcasters	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.1%	45	$1,000
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.0%	21	$500
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)	NJ	National	0.0%	21	$500
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.0%	18	$1,000
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.0%	18	$80
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	16	$275
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.1%	13	$2,500
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.0%	13	$125
Corporation for Public Broadcasting	DC	National	25.0%	12	$6,590,569
Johnson Controls Foundation	WI	National	0.0%	10	$80

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Television producing and broadcasting nonprofits grantees

Television broadcasters with more than $5 million in total revenues received 99% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 85% of all tv broadcasters.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	976
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	20

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$500
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$4,000
$1M-$5M	$1,000
>$5M	$750

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	150
Pennsylvania	110
California	97
Washington	77
Other	562

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	118
Philadelphia	80
Los Angeles	72
Seattle	71
Other	643

Top 25 grants made to television broadcasters

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Iowa State Univeristy of Science and Technology	$100,386,531	See Part Iv	Iowa State University Foundation
Iowa State Univeristy of Science and Technology	$39,394,877	Annual Distribution	Big Twelve Conference
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)	$29,243,900	TVPRG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Sesame Workshop (SW)	$25,107,013	To Enhance Caregiver-Child Engagement and Improve Children's Learning and Socio-Emotional Outcomes By Implementing A Large-Scale Early Childhood Intervention in the Syrian Response Region.	John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
Independent Television Services	$15,574,046	TVPRG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)	$12,900,590	RTL	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Wnet	$12,237,557	TVCSG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA)	$11,088,222	Support for Films, Outreach, Education	The Better Angels Society
WGBH Educational Foundation	$7,859,857	TVCSG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
WGBH Educational Foundation	$6,765,954	TVPRG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA)	$6,415,184	TVCSG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA)	$6,160,903	TVPRG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Independent Television Services	$6,025,000	Arts & Culture	Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
Kcetlink PBS Socal Or Link TV	$5,533,638	TVCSG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Twin Cities Public Television (TPT)	$3,894,800	TVCSG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Iowa State Univeristy of Science and Technology	$3,747,386	Research	Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
Window To the World Communications (WTTW)	$3,642,410	TVCSG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA)	$3,250,000	Execution of Mental Health Sponsorship	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP)
WGBH Educational Foundation	$3,184,136	See Part Iv: #1	Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission	$3,095,165	TVCSG	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Iowa State Univeristy of Science and Technology	$5,000	Scholarship for 2019-2020 Academic Year	Inland Empire Community Foundation (TCF)
Connecticut Public Broadcasting	$5,000	Inform, Educate and Inspire the People of Connecticut	Trinity Health of New England Corporation
Ideastream	$5,000	General Operations	Hastings Community Foundation
CBA Television Productions	$5,000	Project Support	The Chicago Bar Foundation
Klru	$5,000	Sponsorship	Austin Parks Foundation (APF)

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Television broadcasters" category for this page is determined by the "A32: Television" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.