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WISCONSIN PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDATION INC

EIN 39-1447533 MADISON, WI

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).

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.

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alyssa Kenney

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne Hanson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leah Lechleiter Luke

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • 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 — 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
    $11,114,333
    Expenses
    $11,081,691
    Contributions
    $9,803,505
    Grants paid
    $10,897,100
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $11,253,498
    Expenses
    $11,757,077
    Contributions
    $10,333,018
    Grants paid
    $11,391,100
  • 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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 2022 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

  • 2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • 2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

  • 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

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 10 September 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.