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Public Radio International

EIN 41-1425271Arts, Culture, Humanities Minnesota Large

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Hear a different voice

Public Radio International's mission is to serve audiences as a distinctive content source for information, insights, and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world. PRI is building a more informed, empathetic, and connected world by creating multi-platform content that empowers people to enrich their lives and the world. PRI's award-winning content reaches more than 18 million people each month, through nearly 900 public radio stations nationwide and PRI.org, and millions more through podcasts and social media. An affiliated company of WGBH, PRI produces PRI's The World®, The Takeaway (a co-production with WNYC), and Studio 360® from PRI and WNYC. It offers in-depth reporting on topics including gender equity, international security, and American identity and immigration. It represents public radio programs including Science Friday, q from the CBC, and The Tavis Smiley Show.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

85.20Overall score
out of 100

82.20Financial score
out of 100

89.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$16,134,095

Total expenses · USD$18,690,872

Program expenses

$16,597,494.34 recorded amount

88.8%

Fundraising expenses

$1,214,906.68 recorded amount

6.5%

Administrative expenses

$841,089.24 recorded amount

4.5%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.18 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Alisa Miller
Recorded compensation: $337,280.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.80%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

Exact source strings are retained below, including numeric precision. A blank value is marked as not reported; zero remains zero.

All 23 original fields for Public Radio International
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	89.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	Public Radio International's mission is to serve audiences as a distinctive content source for information, insights, and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world. PRI is building a more informed, empathetic, and connected world by creating multi-platform content that empowers people to enrich their lives and the world. PRI's award-winning content reaches more than 18 million people each month, through nearly 900 public radio stations nationwide and PRI.org, and millions more through podcasts and social media. An affiliated company of WGBH, PRI produces PRI's The World®, The Takeaway (a co-production with WNYC), and Studio 360® from PRI and WNYC. It offers in-depth reporting on topics including gender equity, international security, and American identity and immigration. It represents public radio programs including Science Friday, q from the CBC, and The Tavis Smiley Show.
`ein` EIN	41-1425271
`tot_exp` Total expenses	18690872.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.045
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.18
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.065
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.888
`fscore` Financial score	82.2
`leader` Recorded leader	Alisa Miller
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	337280.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.018000000000000002
`motto` Tagline	Hear a different voice
`name` Charity name	Public Radio International
`tot_rev` Total revenue	16134095.0
`score` Overall score	85.2
`state` State code	MN
`subcategory` Subcategory	Public Broadcasting and Media
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	16597494.336000001
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	1214906.68
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	841089.24

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.