At The Dallas Foundation, we believe strong communities are built not only through direct services, but through access to trusted information, meaningful storytelling, arts and culture, and lifelong learning. In a rapidly changing world, public media plays a vital role in connecting people to the issues, conversations, and experiences that shape North Texas.
That’s why we are proud to partner with KERA, North Texas’ public media organization serving millions of viewers, listeners, readers, and families across the region. Through journalism, educational programming, arts coverage, and community engagement, KERA helps inform, educate, and connect communities across North Texas every day.
Why This Work Matters
Access to reliable information and educational resources is essential to a thriving community.
Local journalism helps residents better understand the challenges and opportunities shaping their neighborhoods. Educational programming creates opportunities for children and families to learn and grow. Arts and culture coverage strengthens civic identity and celebrates the creativity that defines a region. Trusted public media organizations provide something increasingly valuable: accessible, community-centered content designed to inform rather than divide.
For many North Texans, KERA is more than a television or radio station. It is a trusted source for local news, thoughtful conversations, educational programming, cultural storytelling, and civic connection. From classrooms and living rooms to daily commutes and community conversations, KERA’s impact reaches across generations and throughout the region.
What KERA Does
For more than 60 years, KERA has served North Texas through public broadcasting, journalism, educational resources, and cultural programming designed to inform and engage the community.
Through the many platforms on their network, KERA reaches millions of North Texans each week with programming that spans local reporting, national and international news, children’s education, music, arts and culture, and public affairs.
KERA’s local journalism explores the issues most relevant to North Texas communities, while its educational and cultural programming creates opportunities for lifelong learning and deeper community engagement. Programs like Think with Krys Boyd, Texas Standard, Art&Seek, and KERA’s local reporting initiatives help elevate diverse voices and meaningful conversations across the region.
KERA also serves families and educators through curriculum-based children’s programming and free digital learning resources that support learning both in the classroom and at home.
Our Collaboration
The Dallas Foundation is proud to support organizations that strengthen civic engagement, expand access to trusted information, and foster meaningful community connection across North Texas.
Since our partnership began in 1992, The Dallas Foundation has awarded approximately $450,000 in direct support to KERA through the Community Impact Fund, endowments, and field-of-interest funds. Together with our fundholders, total grantmaking support for KERA has exceeded $3.1 million, demonstrating decades of philanthropic investment in trusted public media for North Texas.
Public media organizations like KERA play an important role in helping communities stay informed, connected, and engaged, while also creating accessible opportunities for lifelong learning.
How to Support KERA
Donors, fundholders, and advisors can help advance KERA’s mission through strategic philanthropic support that sustains independent journalism, educational programming, arts and culture coverage, and community engagement initiatives.
Support may take many forms, including annual contributions, multi-year investments, sponsorship opportunities, or targeted funding for local journalism, educational outreach, children’s programming, and arts initiatives.
Philanthropic investment in public media helps ensure North Texans continue to have access to trusted reporting, educational resources, and meaningful storytelling that informs, inspires, and connects communities across the region.