Simple, that’s their sugar daddy.

https://media.npr.org/documents/about/annualreports/NPR Annual Report 2025 mobile.pdf

Corporate sponsors starting on page 59, some other notable names starting on on page 38.

Other clues spread throughout, as to who they have to please to stay funded, and in business.

NPR has a heavy right bias hidden behind calm verbage. most of their funding comes from the Kock brothers, who’ve spend a huge amount of money pushing fascism in media.