Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Dec 1970.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
92 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
51 people listed on the 990-T; $7.5M paid to officers and key staff.
Paula a Kerger’s $1.5M as President & CEO is at the 85th percentile of top reported officer pay among 53 $100M+ arts & culture nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paula a Kerger | $1,471,435 | $1,162,720 | $1,055,135 | $1,036,271 | $963,099 | $1,223,171 |
| Jonathan Barzilay | $768,991 | $749,457 | $685,206 | $675,500 | $611,670 | $614,025 |
| Ira Rubenstein | $646,467 | $607,379 | $548,264 | $459,843 | $455,998 | $461,879 |
| Katherine Lauderdale | $546,975 | — | $502,354 | $493,432 | — | — |
| Katherine S Lauderdale | — | $539,389 | — | — | $463,742 | $467,873 |
| Rhonda Holt | $536,431 | $503,215 | — | — | — | — |
| Thomas E Tardivo | $521,596 | — | $457,530 | $452,039 | $426,169 | $411,981 |
| Tom E Tardivo | — | $520,536 | — | — | — | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2Yes
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Provides high-quality educational and entertaining media programming, digital services, and administrative support to its network of public television stations nationwide.
Questions for Public Broadcasting Service
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Content and Promotion
A core function under PBS's mission as a multi-platform media organization and represents costs associated with the diverse content offered to its 151-member public television licensees. PBS's wide array of content expands the minds of children, incudes documentaries that enlighten the public on new worlds, non-commercialized news…
Distribution and Information Technology
Represents Network, Media, and Satellite Operation Centers handling, technical evaluation, and other pre-transmission processing of all program video; program origination transmission including operational support for news and other live event coverage, and the scheduling and logging of all satellite feeds.
Member Services
Represents services provided to PBS's member stations, including digital products and services, development, and copyright administration.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2022 990-T, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest | $696.6M | $584.5M | $112.1M | $519.2M | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $558.2M | $550.7M | $7.5M | $421.3M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $544.0M | $541.7M | $2.3M | $411.7M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 Viewing | $543.0M | $506.8M | $36.2M | $404.4M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $502.1M | $448.6M | $53.4M | $399.6M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 | $550.5M | $552.1M | −$1.6M | $346.7M | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2022 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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