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PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE

EIN 52-0899215 ARLINGTON, VA

Revenue 2023
$558,177,775
Expenses 2023
$550,651,752

Program services were 92.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A320
Classification
2100
Street
1225 S CLARK STREET

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 · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Paula A Kerger

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $1,283,131
    From this org
    $1,162,720
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $120,411
    Hours/week
    32 + 8 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $838,766
    Bonus
    $285,175
    Other
    $38,779
    Deferred
    $66,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $54,411
    Filer's total
    $1,283,131

  • Amy Shaw

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Catherine Robb

    PBS Board Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5

  • Chuck Hagel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Courtney Pledger

    PBS Board Vice-Chair (AS OF 09/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5

  • Dolores Fernandez Alonso

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ed Ulman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Franz Joachim

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Geoff Sands

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Greg Petrowich

    Director (AS OF 09/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gunjan Kedia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Holden Thorp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jayme Swain

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jorge Plasencia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Martin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Larry Irving

    PBS Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1 related

  • Lisa Shumate

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Mark Contreras

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marvin Irby

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Maxine Clark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Isip

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mildred Garcia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Molly Phillips

    PBS Board Vice-Chair (THRU 09/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5

  • Rob Dunlop

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • Sandra Cordova Micek

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $558,177,775
    Expenses
    $550,651,752
    Contributions
    $271,289,329
    Grants paid
    $7,996,432
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $544,038,860
    Expenses
    $541,696,112
    Contributions
    $272,318,709
    Grants paid
    $4,876,818

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

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 PC.

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.