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PBS’s budget is supported largely by non-government money: individual member donations, station-level fundraising and corporate underwriting, foundation grants, and earned revenue from program distrib...
operates on a hybrid, decentralized funding model—local member station dues and fundraising, corporate underwriting and foundation grants, and historically federal support routed through the —backed b...
The public-facing financial pages list audited consolidated financial reports for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, but the material provided to this inquiry does not include the numeric audited “” line ite...
PBS funding is not a single, uniform pot: at the level of local public-television stations, a majority of revenue historically comes from private membership donations and grants—commonly cited as roug...
Federal funding for the U.S. public television system is commonly reported in the mid‑teens of overall revenue: roughly 15 percent of public television’s aggregate budget is supported by federal dolla...