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Content and Production Grants (TV & Online Video Content, Radio Program Fund) is sponsored by Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Invests in the production of innovative, diverse content that aligns with CPB's mission to provide universal access to high-quality educational programming, especially to underserved audiences. CPB-supported content must be distributed through public media outlets.
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The national public broadcasting enterprise includes nearly 360 television stations and 1,200 radio stations, which together can transmit communications to 99% of the U.S. population. 1, \"About CPB,\" https://cpb. org/aboutcpb .")
Local stations are operated by a variety of different entities, including public and private institutions of higher education, local school districts, state agencies, and nonprofit community organizations. 2 In its early decades, this enterprise largely developed without regular federal funding.
Beginning in the 1960s, broad-based support for alternatives to commercial broadcasting led to the passage of legislation that authorized regular federal funding for public broadcasting. Congressional appropriations were distributed to public media broadcasters and producers through a private nonprofit corporation incorporated in Washington, DC, which was known as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
The CPB was authorized in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 (PBA; P. L. 90-129), enacted as an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934.
The CPB did not own or operate any stations. On August 1, 2025, the CPB announced that it would cease operations in January 2026 because of a lack of funding after Congress rescinded advance appropriations for FY2026 and FY2027, and Senate appropriators elected not to include funding in a version of a Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (S. 2587; see also S.
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congress. gov/crs-product/R48545)House appropriators likewise declined to fund the CPB. 4 , contained no funding for the CPB.
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On January 5, 2026, the CPB announced that its board of directors voted to dissolve the organization. 5 In a court filing the same day, the CPB further explained that it intended to file articles of dissolution with the DC Mayor's Office on or about January 30, 2026, but would be able to continue certain wind-down activities after that date. 6, https://assets.
alm. com/74/46/444542bc4f8c888745ebf0ba3695/gov-uscourts-dcd-279991-46-0. pdf .")
Throughout its existence, the CPB expanded the U.S. public broadcasting enterprise through technology investments and grants to independent local stations and producers in partnership with major philanthropies, educational institutions, state and local governments, and corporate and individual donors.
This expansion enabled production and distribution of programming for national audiences—capabilities that barely existed in public broadcasting before 1967. While these changes provided diverse programming to national audiences, they also exposed public broadcasting to broader national scrutiny of its cultural content and balance. The public broadcasting enterprise may witness changes following the closure of the CPB.
Such changes could include closure of some broadcast stations and adaptation of others to find new sources of revenue, as well as less centralized oversight and development of the public broadcasting enterprise. This report provides historical background on the national public broadcasting enterprise and the evolving role of the federal government and public broadcasting entities in this enterprise as fundamental changes are enacted.
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gov/crs-product/R48545)Public Broadcasting Before 1967 Interest in educational or noncommercial programming dates to the early days of broadcasting. Beginning in the 1930s, some state universities and other educational institutions seeking to better serve rural populations pioneered the use of broadcast radio for remote learning.
In 1938, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set aside a portion of available radio channels for noncommercial and educational broadcasting, periodically updating policy as technology evolved. 7 , Fourth Annual Report: FY1938 , p. IV, https://docs.
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During this period, [](https://www. congress. gov/crs-product/R48545)advocates viewed such broadcasting as a form of public education similar to that provided in public schools, which they argued should be free from commercial pressures and influences.
8, pp. 427-433 (hereinafter \" The Changing Status of Educational Television \" ) .") In the early postwar era, the emergence and growth of television technology prompted efforts to develop noncommercial and educational broadcasting in the new medium.
Federal support was largely limited to FCC set-asides of frequency spectrum for noncommercial and educational broadcasters—first radio, and then television—and limited grants made through federal agency appropriations. 9 authorized a total of $ 1 8 million in appropriations for research and development of television, radio, and other media for educational purposes .
For general information on frequency spectrum allocation, see CRS Video WVB00471, National Spectrum Policy: Concepts, Issues, and Options for Congress , by Jill...") In the absence of regular federal funding of public broadcasting during this period, private philanthropies—and occasionally for-profit broadcasters—provided funding to support noncommercial and educational broadcasting.
The Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York became major supporters of this enterprise. 10 . Ford Foundation records show $5.
45 million (nominal dollars) in donations for public radio and television since 2006, focusing on content production, technology, and professional development, with the most recent grant made in 2020. See Ford Foundation , Gr...")
Despite support from these and other sources, efforts at expanding the reach of noncommercial and educational radio and television broadcasts often had an experimental and improvisational character—especially outside urban areas.
In early 1960s, one initiative—sponsored in part by the Ford Foundation and led by Purdue University researchers—deployed DC-6 airliners equipped with television transmitters to circle above sparsely populated areas of the Midwest and broadcast educational television programs.
11 Advocates sought greater federal support for noncommercial and educational broadcasting to provide more consistent financing to improve transmission technology and programming quality. Congress enacted the Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962 (ETFA; P. L.
87-447) to support construction and upgrades to educational television facilities through a system of matching grants administered by the then-extant Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In signing the bill, President Kennedy framed educational television as a Cold War national security imperative. 12 The law authorized $32 million in appropriations over five years—or $339 million in April 2025 dollars.
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htm .") Other advocates framed public broadcasting as a cultural alternative to the "vast wasteland" of commercial television, enriching civic discourse, public education, and community life.
14 In 1965, the Carnegie Corporation of New York created the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television (the Carnegie Commission) to study the state of noncommercial and educational broadcasting in the United States and to study best practices from several other countries. President Lyndon B. Johnson publicly endorsed the general objectives of the Carnegie Commission that year.
15 The Carnegie Commission released its report, titled "Public Television: A Program for Action," in January 1967—an event that received national front-page news coverage.
16 The report introduced public broadcasting into the mainstream lexicon, drawing a distinction between programming to support classroom instruction (educational television) and broadcasting of noncommercial content for the broader viewing community (public television).
The Carnegie Commission's primary recommendation was that Congress create and fund a nonprofit corporation to support production of public television content for local and national audiences.
Other recommendations included (1) an excise tax on television sales to fund the new nonprofit public-broadcasting corporation—the Carnegie Commission argued that such a tax would provide a predictable source of funding not dependent on, or influenced by, the annual appropriations process—and (2) separate legislation for new authorities and appropriations, which would allow the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide improved broadcasting facilities to independent local stations and support a national interconnection for program distribution and live broadcasts.
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gov/crs-product/R48545)The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 [](https://www. congress. gov/crs-product/R48545)The PBA, as amended, incorporated several recommendations of the Carnegie Commission, modified or omitted others, and added several original provisions.
The primary recommendation of the Carnegie Commission's report—that Congress create a private, nonprofit corporation to support development of local and national programming for public television (and later radio)—was enacted as the law's core provision. The CPB was incorporated in 1967 as a private nonprofit corporation.
As recommended by the Carnegie Commission, the law prohibited the CPB from operating or controlling independent local stations. However, the CPB became the primary conduit for federal support of local broadcasters and producers and for the buildout of a national interconnection for program distribution and live broadcasts.
18 ; its successor, the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) , wa s authorized under the Public Telecommunications Financing Act of 1978, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 390-393, 397-399b , and administered by the Depar...") Congress elected to fund the CPB through the annual appropriations process, rather than using a federal excise tax as recommended by the Carnegie Commission.
Public broadcasting expanded rapidly in geographic reach and availability of programming for national distribution after enactment of the PBA. According to the CPB, the national public broadcasting system reached 99% of the U.S. population as of August 2025.
19 In the decades since the PBA's passage, multiple Congresses and presidential Administrations sought to make changes to the act and to the public broadcasting enterprise writ large. Issues addressed by these actions include * CPB authorities for programming decisions and control over public broadcasters' access to the interconnection for national program distribution;20 , p. 207 , https://scholar...")
* balance and objectivity of programming;21 * service to unserved and underserved audiences, especially children and minorities;22 * encouragement of creative risk in programming;23 * development of telecommunications technologies;25 * the formula for allocating CPB appropriations to public broadcasters and producers of programming content;26 and * requirements for public broadcast station financial transparency and public meetings.
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gov/crs-product/R48545)[](https://www. congress. gov/crs-product/R48545)Structure and Leadership of the CPB The CPB Board of Directors was organized under Section 396(c) of the PBA (47 U.S.C.
§396(c)), as amended. The law provides for a board of nine directors appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. By law, directors are to be U.S. citizens "who are eminent in such fields as education, cultural and civic affairs, or the arts, including radio and television."
In addition, the law requires that directors are geographically representative of different regions, professionally diverse, and possess "various kinds of talent and experience appropriate to the functions and responsibilities of the [CPB]." Directors are allowed a term of six years and may serve up to two terms consecutively.
By law, one director must represent public television stations, and one director must represent public radio stations. No more than five directors may be affiliated with a single political party, but the law otherwise prohibits applying any "political test or qualification" for nominations or appointments.
According to statute, directors must forfeit their positions for _absenteeism_, defined as missing 50% or more of meetings in a calendar year. The PBA provides no other specific guidance on removal of directors. Directors have typically represented a variety of professional backgrounds in diverse fields related to broadcasting, such as public policy, community organizing, entertainment law, and corporate leadership.
The PBA provides the board with authority to name and appoint CPB corporate officers and to fix terms of compensation. In addition, it mandates several oversight and facilitation functions.
These include the following: * "facilitate the full development of public telecommunications in which programs of high quality, diversity, creativity, excellence, and innovation, which are obtained from diverse sources, will be made available to public telecommunications entities, with strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature"; * assist in the development of physical infrastructure to facilitate the widespread dissemination of public broadcasting content and in the development of public broadcasting entities; * ensure freedom of public broadcasters from external interference in developing of programming content and related activities; and * obtain and disseminate grant funding to public broadcasters for the production and acquisition of programming, as well as other expenses.
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gov/crs-product/R48545)In April 2025, the White House moved to dismiss three directors appointed or reappointed by President Biden. 29 The CPB subsequently contested the action in court, claiming that President Trump did not have authority under the PBA to remove CPB directors because, among other factors, the CPB was a private nonprofit organization.
30 Further, the CPB argued that the action was taken with the intent to prevent the board from meeting quorum requirements to conduct CPB business. The CPB Board had four vacancies at the time of the attempted dismissals, so the termination of three members would have left it with two members—a number insufficient to meet the board's quorum requirements.
In opposition to the CPB's request for a temporary restraining order, the defendants argued that presidential appointees to the board were removable at will. 31 On June 8, 2025, the court denied the request for a temporary restraining order. 32[](https://www.
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The lawsuit sought to oust them from office. 33 , https://storage. courtlistener.
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0_2. pdf .") Those board members eventually stepped down as litigation continued, according to media reports.
34 The CPB and the United States filed joint status reports in both cases on January 5, 2026, which sought to have the two lawsuits dismissed without prejudice because controversies that prompted the suits were mooted by the CPB Board's decision to dissolve itself and the resignation of the last remaining board member whose ouster was sought. 35 The cases were dismissed on January 14, 2026. 36 [](https://www.
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gov/crs-product/R48545)Appropriations for the CPB Until it was defunded by Congress, the CPB was largely funded by federal appropriations but sometimes received private donations as well. In the first several years after creation of the CPB, appropriations were made annually. Beginning with the Public Broadcasting Financing Act of 1975 (P.
L. 94-192), Congress provided two-year advance appropriations to the CPB in order to separate programming decisions from pressures of the appropriations process and to better allow for long-term planning of content development. 37 For example, the FY2027 advance appropriation for the CPB of $535 million was made under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (P.
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The Ford White House was also supportive of advance appropriations to the CPB, originally proposing a five-year advance appropriation. On the basis of discussions between congressional leadership and the White House, Congress shortened this period to two years. Subsequent Congresses continued the practice of advance appropriations.
39 However, some Members in recent Congresses called for an end to advance appropriations for the CPB. 40 Appropriations to the CPB were made under the jurisdiction of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittees of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
41 These subcommittees provided appropriations under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Congress periodically provided separate appropriations for support of the interconnection infrastructure that enables national distribution of content and live programming events. For FY2025, the appropriation for interconnection support was $60 million.
42. Interconnection support appropriations were not subject to the advance appropriations process.") In addition, Congress provided emergency appropriations to the CPB in response to economic and social disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
43 and $75 million in fiscal stabilization funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ( P. L. 116-136 ) .")
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gov/crs-product/R48545)[](https://www. congress. gov/crs-product/R48545)Ready to Learn Grants In recent decades, Ready to Learn (RTL) grants from the Department of Education have supported the development of educational television and digital media targeted at preschool and early elementary school children.
44 RTL grants are awarded on a competitive basis every five years. The CPB was awarded grants in previous years to partner with local stations and other public broadcasting entities that produce content for national distribution. 45 In the past, RTL grants helped fund a number of well-known children's programs, such as Sesame Street, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Molly of Denali.
46 .") In the 2020-2025 grant cycle, the CPB was awarded a total of $112 million in order to develop "new content that helps young children build vital skills to help them succeed in school and life, including functional literacy, critical thinking and collaboration—and shows them career options in age-appropriate ways." 47 On March 20, 2025, the President issued Executive Order (E.
O.) 14242, "Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities." The E.
O. directs the Secretary of Education to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education" while "ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely." 48 On May 1, 2025, the President issued E.
O. 14290, "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media," instructing federal agencies to end funding of certain public broadcasting activities (see "The Future Federal Role in Public Broadcasting" section). On May 2, 2025, the Department of Education terminated the previously awarded 2020-2025 RTL grant and instructed grantees to stop work on funded programming activities, according to the CPB.
49 .") As of the date of publication of this report, the statutory authorities for the RTL grant program are intact and the Department of Education still exists.
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gov/crs-product/R48545) * "A capacity to localize programming and materials to meet specific State and local needs and to provide educational outreach at the local level." 50 .") Although RTL grants were previously made to the CPB, other public broadcasting entities may be eligible for grants if Congress were to appropriate funds to be administered by the Department of Education or designated successor agency.
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The CPB administered a competitive grant program for public television and radio stations to replace and upgrade their broadcast technologies to expand alert and warning systems and to create a more resilient public alerting system. The grant program is funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as part of the Next Generation Warning System (NGWS) grant program. 52 .")
NGWS is part of an upgrade within the existing public safety warning system known as the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. 53: Primer and Issues for Congress , by Amanda H. Peskin ; and CRS In Focus IF12998, The Emergency Alert System: Status of Current Funding for Improvements , by Amanda H.
Peskin .") According to the CPB, Congress made appropriations between FY2022 and FY2025 totaling $136 million to implement the NGWS Grant Program. 54 The program was established and funded through the annual appropriations process.
Congressional appropriators set forth priorities for the program in appropriations committee reports. In the report accompanying a version of a Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2023 (H. R.
8257), congressional appropriators stated that [t]he first priority of the NGWS program is to help public media entities replace aging infrastructure that is essential to their role in civil defense and public safety missions.
The program also supports these investments by these entities in new technology needed to enhance alert, warning, and other public safety communications systems to ensure resilience, service to underserved populations, and the ability to meet the evolving nature of public alerting challenges. The Committee expects FEMA to work with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to implement this program for public broadcasting entities.
55 Appropriations reporting language is not usually legally binding, but federal agencies receiving the appropriation may nevertheless follow such language. Under FEMA's original implementation of the program, the CPB was the only eligible applicant and sole recipient of grant funds for the FY2022-FY2024 grant cycles.
Under the terms of the grant, the CPB awarded funds through sub-grants to public broadcast stations for technology upgrades and for purchase and distribution of commercial receivers to individual members of rural and underserved communities in order to assist them in accessing emergency information. 56, p. 9, https://www.
fema. gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_ncp-fy24-ngwsgp-nofo. pdf (hereinafter FEMA FY2024 NOFO).")
In compliance with President Biden's E. O. 13985, "Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government," issued in January 2021, FEMA prioritized grant awards to public broadcasting stations serving minority and underserved communities.
57 President Trump revoked this E. O. on January 20, 2025.
58 According to the CPB, "approximately $24. 9 million [had] been awarded to 45 organizations in 24 states" as of April 2025. 59 .")
On February 18, 2025, FEMA put a hold on further disbursements of grant awards funded under a $40 million appropriation made by Congress in March 2022. 60 This hold temporarily halted work on NGWS upgrades. The CPB sued FEMA to restore funding but later secured the release of grant funds on April 24, 2025, through a negotiated agreement with the agency.
61 On August 18, 2025, the CPB issued a press release stating that—because it was defunded by Congress—it could no longer manage the NGWS Grant Program. It stated that "FEMA should assume responsibility for disbursing the funds as Congress intended." 62 [](https://www.
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The NOFO modified the previous purpose and funding structure of the program as implemented by the Biden Administration, which had centered the CPB and public broadcasting interests in broad accordance with congressional appropriations committee reporting language (see the "Public Broadcasting Support for Public Alerts and Warnings" section). 63 .")
The 2025 NOFO indicated that FEMA would fund a wider array of public and private sector stakeholders and activities in the emergency alerting field, placing less emphasis on the role of established broadcasters and upgrades of broadcast station technologies.
64 The 2025 NOFO appears to indicate that FEMA may exclude participation in the program by organizations that have diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and by foreign nationals. 65 In contrast with previous funding opportunity notices, the 2025 NOFO made no mention of public broadcasting stations or public broadcasting audiences as intended beneficiaries of the grant program.
66, and identified \"underserved public broadcasting audiences\" as the intended beneficiaries of the program . See FEMA FY202 4 NOFO , pp. 6, 11.")
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gov/crs-product/R48545)[](https://www. congress. gov/crs-product/R48545)CPB Support for Independent Broadcasters and Producers Congress created the CPB to provide federal support for consistent funding for content production and distribution that would support a national public broadcasting enterprise (see the "The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967" section).
As amended, the PBA provides a formula for CPB allocation of federal appropriations it receives from Congress. The formula allocates funding as follows: * CPB administrative costs receive 5% of the total allocation. * System support activities, such as local journalism initiatives, professional development, interconnection operations, and royalty payments, among others, receive 6% of the total allocation.
68 * The remainder—89% of the total federal appropriation to the CPB—is used to provide grants to public broadcasting stations and program producers that meet specified eligibility criteria. * Of that 89% remainder, 75% is allocated to television grants, and 25% is allocated to radio grants.
* Funds for television grants are further divided into television station grants and programming grants—75% and 25% of total public television grant funding, respectively. * For radio, 70% of total public radio funding is allocated to radio station grants. The remainder of the total is allocated between radio programming acquisition grants (23%) and radio programming grants (7%).
**Figure 1** provides a visual representation of the allocation formula. CPB grants were the largest single source of funding for public television and radio stations and for programming development and distribution. Station grants for both radio and television were known as Community Service Grants.
On average, in FY2024, 10. 6% of a public television station's revenue and 6. 0% of a public radio station's revenue came from CPB television and radio station grants.
69 The percentages for rural stations serving smaller audiences over larger broadcasting regions were often substantially higher because they generally had fewer alternative funding streams. 70 The CPB took several factors into account in determining grant funding for individual stations, including rural geography, service to minority audiences, independent fundraising, and status as sole media provider in a service area.
71 Stations were required to apply annually for grants and meet transparency requirements for financial reporting and public oversight, among other requirements. Eligibility rules for Community Service Grants strongly favored incumbent licensees that received awards during the previous grant cycle. The predictability of this funding facilitated stations' long-term planning and outside fundraising efforts.
Programming grants to stations and independent producers were generally disbursed as competitive awards for specific public programming activities. Independent public broadcasters could also receive support from other federal agencies, state and local governments, community organizations, educational institutions, corporations and other businesses, philanthropic organizations, and individual donations from viewers and listeners.
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gov/crs-product/R48545)The Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was created by the CPB in 1969 to operate and manage a nationwide program distribution system interconnecting public television stations and to provide a distribution channel for national programs to those stations.
Although PBS does not produce programs for its members, it aggregates funding for the creation and acquisition of programs by and for the stations and distributes programs through its satellite distribution system to nearly 350 local public television stations. National Public Radio (NPR) was created by the CPB in 1970 as a news-gathering, production, and program-distribution company governed by its member public radio stations.
NPR has over 1,000 member and affiliate stations, according to the CPB. In contrast with PBS, NPR is authorized to produce radio programs for its members. It also provides, acquires, and distributes radio programming through its satellite program distribution system.
NPR Inc., located in Washington, DC, provides these administrative operations. NPR membership includes access to certain NPR-produced public affairs programs, but member stations retain control over programming decisions. 72 , \"Public Radio Finances,\" https://www.
npr. org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances .") Two-thirds of all public radio stations in the United States are NPR members.
73 .") According to the CPB, PBS is funded mainly by "member stations, distribution revenue, and underwriting support." 74.")
Similarly, NPR is funded mainly "by member stations, distribution services, underwriting and institutional grants, and individual contributions." 75 Public broadcasters were permitted to use CPB grant funds to pay membership dues to PBS and NPR and to pay license fees for programming. Therefore, CPB station and programming grants awarded to independent local broadcasters could fund PBS and NPR indirectly.
Because public broadcasting stations typically drew from multiple revenue sources to pay membership dues and program acquisition fees, there are no authoritative estimates of indirect federal funding levels of the PBS and NPR nonprofit organizations through dues and fees. 76 Both PBS and NPR received some direct federal funding from the CPB.
In the case of PBS, the CPB provided direct grant support for certain national content, distribution infrastructure, and emergency alerting functions (see the "Public Broadcasting Support for Public Alerts and Warning" section).
In the case of NPR, the CPB provided "direct grant support to NPR for its international reporting bureaus and for the infrastructure that distributes content from NPR and other national public radio producers to every public radio station." 77 Such funding typically made up a small fraction of these organizations' total revenue.
According to media reports, NPR received about 1% of its funding for programming and related activities directly from the federal government each year, while PBS received about 16%.
78 In a March 2025 public appearance, Katherine Maher, the president and CEO of NPR, said that direct federal funding was approximately $11 million annually, with $3 million going to support international news gathering, and the remainder going to support distribution and emergency warning infrastructure. NPR's annual budget is approximately $300 million, according to Maher. 79 , April 2, 2025 , https://knightcenter.
utexas. edu/end-of-federal-funds-would-break-fabric-of-public-national-network-says-nprs-ceo/ .") The PBS budget for FY2025 was $373 million, according to media reports.
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Member stations typically run underwriting announcements before programs to recognize sponsors. These announcements must adhere to strict criteria prohibiting promotion of goods and services, use of inducements, or calls to action. 82 In a letter to NPR and PBS leadership, Carr wrote I believe this FCC investigation may prove relevant to an ongoing legislative debate.
In particular, Congress is actively considering whether to stop requiring taxpayers to subsidize NPR and PBS programming. For my own part, I do not see a reason why Congress should continue sending taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS given the changes in the media marketplace since the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
To the extent that these taxpayer dollars are being used to support a for-profit endeavor or an entity that is airing commercial advertisements, then that would further undermine any case for continuing to fund NPR and PBS with taxpayer dollars. 83 FCC Commissioner Anna M.
Gomez, an appointee of President Biden, released a statement criticizing the investigation request as "yet another Administration effort to weaponize the power of the FCC." 84 Additionally, several Members wrote letters to the FCC or issued public statements criticizing the investigation request. 85 PBS and NPR leaders made widely reported statements that member stations comply with applicable legal requirements.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: All capable nonprofit entities are eligible to apply. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Content and Production Grants (TV & Online Video Content, Radio Program Fund) is funded by Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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Jerome Early-Career Project Grants is a grant from Forecast Public Art, funded by the Jerome Foundation, that funds the creation of new public art projects by early-career artists based in Minnesota. Two grants of $8,000 each are awarded annually to support temporary or permanent public artworks anywhere in Minnesota. Projects may be supported by public or nonprofit agencies but private commissions are not eligible, and a secured project site is required at the time of application. The program places special emphasis on supporting BIPOC and Native artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, women artists, immigrant artists, rural artists, and artists with disabilities. Eligible applicants are Minnesota-based individual artists with 2–10 years of generative experience. The application deadline was October 15, 2025.
The Local Cultural Council Program is a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council distributing $1,000 to $10,000 through a statewide network of 329 Local Cultural Councils (LCCs) representing every city and town in the Commonwealth. Each LCC awards funds based on local community cultural needs as assessed by council members. Eligible applicants include artists, nonprofits, schools, and organizations pursuing arts, humanities, and science projects. Applications are submitted directly to local councils and are typically due by October 16. Grants from most LCCs are reimbursement-based. Massachusetts Cultural Council funds the LCCs centrally, which then regrant to community projects.
The Justice Department's new Model Cities Initiative will hand 2 to 4 American cities roughly $300 million in 36-month cooperative agreements to rebuild public safety from the ground up. Applications are due September 1, 2026. The catch that will decide who wins: this is not a police grant, a prosecutor grant, or a behavioral-health grant. It is a single citywide proposal that has to braid all of them together. Here is who is eligible, what the money actually funds, and how a mayor's office should build a proposal that survives DOJ review.
Read articleWhile founders chase fixed grant deadlines, the Economic Development Administration runs two flagship programs on a rolling basis — no application window, applications accepted until the money runs out. Here is how Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance work in FY2026, why the CEDS requirement is the real gate, and how communities should sequence an application.
Read articleHRSA-26-078 splits $9.1 million among roughly 10 Public Health Training Centers, with awards up to $910,000 and applications due July 17, 2026. Eligibility runs to accredited schools of public health and other nonprofit training institutions. Here's why the winning applications are the ones that can prove an existing, mapped relationship with state and local health departments — not the ones promising the slickest coursework.
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