Comment by swores

I don't know about the situation at all (non-American here), but hypothetically if a local (say State level or something) organisation, that was 100% funded by the federal government, chose to donate 10% of their revenue to PBS, then PBS would accurately classify that as a donation rather than federal funding, but it would still potentially be affected by federal funding cuts.

I've no idea of that is at all the case with any of PBS' donations, but it seems like a hypothetical that might be true and that could be hidden despite you being diligent in finding out what PBS truthfully reported.