- Revenue 2024
- $11,114,333
- Expenses 2024
- $11,081,691
Program services were 98.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A113
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 3319 W BELTLINE HWY
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation WPBF supports the work of the Educational Communications Board ECB a State of Wisconsin agency committed to ensuring that public media and public safety programs and services are available throughout Wisconsin. These programs and services reflect and respond to the educational and cultural needs of Wisconsins residents.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation WPBF supports the work of the Educational Communications Board ECB a State of Wisconsin agency committed to ensuring that public media and public safety programs and services are available throughout Wisconsin. These programs and services reflect and respond to the educational and cultural needs of Wisconsins residents. The ECB partners with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to provide the services of PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio.
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Wisconsin Public Radio WPR brings news music conversation and entertainment programs that inform inspire and build communities throughout Wisconsin and around the world on its two networks - WPR News and WPR Music - and 39 stations. Our commitment to the highest standards of news and cultural content reflects our belief that people and communities thrive with an open exchange of ideas and information.
Expenses $5,355,610 · Grants $5,355,610
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PBS Wisconsin delivers your favorite PBS national programs and learning resources while grounding the PBS mission in Wisconsin. Our approach prioritizes integrity and inclusion quality and community. PBS Wisconsin produces trusted journalism local storytelling tools for Wisconsin educators and community events and partnerships that connect us and keep us curious.
Expenses $5,541,490 · Grants $5,541,490
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Marta Bechtol
Foundation Director and ECB Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $171,205
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $160,146
- Other
- $11,059
- Hours/week
- 1 + 39 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $129,646
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $41,559
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $171,205
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Jennifer Dargan
ECB Deputy Director
- Total calculated
- $171,681
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $138,001
- Other
- $33,680
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $138,001
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,928
- Nontaxable benefits
- $23,752
- Filer's total
- $171,681
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Adam Hargrove
ECB Chief Technology Officer
- Total calculated
- $142,269
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $131,218
- Other
- $11,051
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
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Aimee Wright
ECB Finance Director
- Total calculated
- $141,480
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $110,592
- Other
- $30,888
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
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Edward Snow
ECB Chief Cybersecurity Officer
- Total calculated
- $138,480
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $107,036
- Other
- $31,444
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
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Glenn Guy
ECB Field Engineering Director
- Total calculated
- $145,096
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $107,757
- Other
- $37,339
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
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Alyssa Kenney
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Anne Hanson
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Leah Lechleiter Luke
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Patrick Snyder
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $11,114,333
- Expenses
- $11,081,691
- Contributions
- $9,803,505
- Grants paid
- $10,897,100
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2023
- Revenue
- $11,253,498
- Expenses
- $11,757,077
- Contributions
- $10,333,018
- Grants paid
- $11,391,100
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2022
- Revenue
- $11,975,237
- Expenses
- $11,537,284
- Contributions
- $11,357,621
- Grants paid
- $11,392,300
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $11,804,228
- Expenses
- $10,444,573
- Assets (EOY)
- $30,808,553
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $11,782,247
- Expenses
- $9,674,715
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,720,675
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
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WI Educational Communications Board
$11,392,300
2022 Support public broadcasting across the state of Wisconsin
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Educational Communications Board
$11,391,100
2023 Support public broadcasting and safety services statewide
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Educational Communications Board
$10,897,100
2024 Support public broadcasting and safety services statewide across Wisconsin.
Grants received
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$2,676,000
2022 THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO PROVIDE WPBF, WISCONSIN PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION, INC. (OPERATING AS PBS WISCONSIN, UNDER LICENSE FROM THE WISCONSIN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD) WITH GENERAL OVERALL SUPPORT AND TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC PROJECTS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN, INC. MISSION STATEMENT.
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$2,517,000
2024 THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO PROVIDE WISCONSIN PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION, INC. (WPBF) (OPERATING AS PBS WISCONSIN UNDER LICENSE FROM THE WISCONSIN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION BOARD) WITH GENERAL SUPPORT AND TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC PROJECTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN, INC. MISSION STATEMENT.
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$2,413,112
2023 THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO PROVIDE WPBF, WISCONSIN PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION, INC. (OPERATING AS PBS WISCONSIN, UNDER LICENSE FROM THE WISCONSIN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BOARD) WITH GENERAL OVERALL SUPPORT AND TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC PROJECTS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN, INC. MISSION STATEMENT.
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2022 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
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2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT
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2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT, BELOIT CHILDREN'S PROGRAM
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
501(C)(3) · Public broadcasting and safety services for Wisconsin · WI
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.