The NPR entities are another example of the nonprofit laws gone crazy in America. Like 100’s of thousands of other bogus “charities” NPR should not exist unless it is run like any other business and pays taxes. There should be no nonprofits in the country (there are zero in Mexico, for example) unless the entity feeds, clothes or houses people.
Read the NPR financials and see what a huge waste this is:
http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/publicradiofinances.html#statements