Texas Public Radio

What it reported doing in 2024

Texas public radio is a mission-driven, award-winning, multimedia organization serving a combined audience of more than 200,000 across a wide expanse of south and central Texas through a variety of radio programs and community outreach events. Tpr operates seven stations and takes advantage of the economy of shared staff and facilities to provide these services in a manner that promotes good stewardship of our donors contributions.kstx 89.1 fm broadcasts public radios premier news information and entertainment to the san antonio area. Its weekday schedule is composed largely of programs produced and/or distributed by npr, including the flagship news magazines morning edition, all things considered, here and now, and fresh air. News and information of particular interest to those in the city of san antonio and surrounding areas is provided four days a week on the source, a one-hour call-in talk show produced by tpr that gives listeners the opportunity to call and connect with in-studio guests and a city-wide audience. Matters of state and regional interest are covered by two tpr-produced, weekly half-hour programs: Texas matters, which looks at the issues and culture of Texas, and fronteras, which explores the changing culture and demographics of the region with emphasis on latino and native american life, history, and culture. Tpr produces podcasts covering a variety of news and cultural topics including petrie dish, which focuses on bioscience and health, book public, a podcast about books and writers, and worth repeating, which packages san antonians stories from the archives of the event. Tpr also translates news stories into spanish, shared by the Texas newsroom for spanish-dominant audiences. The tpr newsroom includes a team of 15 reporters, hosts, editors, and producers who serve our local and regional audiences. Tpr is part of the Texas newsroom, a system-wide collaboration to create a virtual newsroom of 1000+ journalists. The goal of the collaborative effort is to ensure robust coverage of news and events from a Texas perspective, and through which the daily news show, Texas standard, is co-produced.international perspectives on news and events are offered via overnight broadcast of the bbc world service. Weekends feature entertainment and cultural programming including wait, waitdont tell me, travel with rick steves, freakonomics radio, snap judgement, the new yorker radio hour, this american life, and latino USA. Saturday evenings feature sound opinions and the tpr-produced world music with deirdre saravia, which takes listeners on a musical journey to some of the worlds most fascinating places. More than 135,000 people per week listen regularly to kstx on the radio, with many more streaming the service via the tpr website and the tpr mobile app. Kpac 88.3 fm specializes in broadcasting classical music and fine arts information to the san antonio and south Texas area. Tpr utilizes the services of classical 24, a nationally syndicated service, to fulfill the majority of kpacs programming. Locally originated programs include classical connections, a daily live program that includes in-studio performances and interviews with local performers and arts leaders; classics a la carte, an interactive request program on friday nights; and a show dedicated to local concert recordings, performance saturday. Local reporters and producers also contribute news and information about regional artists and events both on air and online at tpr.org. Kpac regularly has more than 69,000 listeners weekly and is also available online via streaming audio at tpr.org and through the tpr mobile app. Ktxi 90.1 fm serves listeners in the western Texas hill country around kerrville and fredericksburg with a mixture of classical music and public radio news programming. The classical music is a simulcast of kpac. The public radio news programming includes both nationally distributed programs and tpr-produced programming also aired on kstx. Local con

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $7.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 2.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings