KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A320

Classification

2000

Street

8710 E 32ND ST N

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

• CONTENTKPTS IS YOUR PUBLICLY-OWNED TELEVISION STATION THAT EDUCATES, ENGAGES, ENTERTAINS, AND ENRICHES KANSANS.IN ADDITION TO QUALITY PROGRAMMING FROM PBS, KPTS ALSO BROADCASTS PROGRAMMING FROM OTHER SOURCES INCLUDING THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN PUBLIC TELEVISION, THE BBC, AND OTHER PROGRAM PROVIDERS.KPTS ALSO WORKS WITH OTHER LOCAL PRODUCERS TO BROADCAST PROGRAMS INCLUDING STREET RODDING AMERICAN STYLE, POSITIVELY KANSAS AND HATTEBERG'S PEOPLE.KPTS HAS ALSO PARTNERED WITH THE TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL TO ENCOURAGE AND BROADCAST FILMS PRODUCED BY KANSAS FILMMAKERS. PRODUCTIONS SUBMITTED ARE REVIEWED TO MEET KPTS STANDARDS FOR QUALITY AND CONTENT.LOCAL PROGRAMS KANSAS WEEK AND ONE ON ONE ARE PRODUCED REGULARLY. DOCUMENTARIES PRODUCED INCLUDE "BRANDS BORN HERE", "WICHITA NOW", "PIATT STREET", "DAVID PARKS GI DIARY", "WICHITA VORTEX", "LOST THEATERS OF WICHTA", AND NUMEROUIS SHORT VIDEOS FOR THE VETERANS COMING HOME INITITIVE ON-LINE AND BROADCAST.LOCAL CONTENT IS BROADCAST ON TWO OF KPTS' THREE DIGITAL CHANNELS: 8.1 AND 8.2. LOCAL PRODUCTIONS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON-LINE AT KPTS.ORG.

  Expenses $1,559,810

• TECHNOLOGYA SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF KPTS' MISSION IS DERIVED THROUGH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY. KPTS BEGAN BROADCASTING ON ITS NEW DIGITAL TRANSMITTER MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2009 AT 10:00 A.M. A LOW POWER BROADCAST WAS ADDED IN THE WICHITA AREA TO IMPROVE RECEPTION IN THE SOUTHEAST QUADRANT OF THE COVERAGE AREA BEGINNING NOVEMBER 10, 2013. A NEW MICROWAVE STL SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED IN FISCAL YEAR 2016. SERVER TECHNOLOGY AND AUTOMATION UPGRADES WERE MADE IN FISCAL YEAR 2018.

  Expenses $756,411

• Expenses $22,657

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,473,535

  Expenses

  $4,117,990

  Contributions

  $4,336,321

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,038,164

  Expenses

  $4,042,533

  Contributions

  $3,867,704

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,596,976

  Expenses

  $3,757,742

  Contributions

  $3,330,669

  Grants paid

  $0

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

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,383,406

  Expenses

  $3,964,111

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,294,249

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,305,068

  Expenses

  $2,859,698

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,324,223

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,839,876

  Expenses

  $2,814,487

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,783,483

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,005,074

  Expenses

  $2,644,807

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,741,867

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,756,564

  Expenses

  $2,426,479

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,446,039

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,830,896

  Expenses

  $2,335,847

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,062,977

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $1,153,128

  2024 · TVCSG

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $1,061,227

  2023 · TVCSG

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $1,002,256

  2022 · TVCSG

• WICHITA FOUNDATION

  $40,250

  2024 · FOR GREAT WOMEN OF KANSAS PROJECT, GENERAL PURPOSE, NEW TRANSMITTER FUND

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $22,742

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $22,300

  2025 · PUBINT

• FORGOOD INC

  $17,278

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $16,046

  2022 · OSS

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $15,892

  2024 · OSS

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $15,462

  2023 · OSS

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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