Is foundation.pbs.org safe?
http://foundation.pbs.org/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (70 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Official PBS Foundation donation site with long-established domain and verified nonprofit status.
foundation.pbs.org is the philanthropic arm of PBS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 2004. The site provides donation options to support PBS programming and initiatives. No security threats or deceptive commercial patterns are present.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 95/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 6 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsDomain registered 11500 days ago
- Supports501(c)(3) 509(a) Type 1 Supporting Organization with listed tax ID
- SupportsPhysical address, phone, and email provided
- SupportsNo threat warnings from the browser threat feed
- SupportsValid TLS certificate present
- SupportsHosting IP abuse score 0/100
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
foundation.pbs.org is the philanthropic arm of PBS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 2004. The site provides donation options to support PBS programming and initiatives. No security threats or deceptive commercial patterns are present.
Domain age and nonprofit credentials
The registrable domain is 11500 days old, placing registration in 1995 and confirming long-standing association with PBS infrastructure.
Page text states PBS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) 509(a) Type 1 Supporting Organization with Federal Tax ID 20-1476451 and lists a physical address at 1225 South Clark Street, Arlington, VA 22202.
Transparent donation options
The site presents a 'DONATE NOW' button and lists multiple giving methods including online donations, wills and trusts, gifts of stock, and beneficiary designations.
Contact information includes a phone number (703) 739-5051 and email pbsfoundation@pbs.org, consistent with the official PBS organization.
Clean technical profile
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the TLS certificate is valid, and the hosting IP shows an abuse confidence score of 0/100.
Why the score is 95
The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from April 30, 2024 - stale
No detections across 70 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 22 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- Artists Against 419 - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- benkow.cc - Clean
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Feodo Tracker - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Clean
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Threatsourcing - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- Underworld - Unrated
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefendernews
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernews and media
- Sophosentertainment
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Your gift to the PBS Foundation helps keep PBS strong.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Your gift to the PBS Foundation helps keep PBS strong.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Home - PBS Foundation
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Home - PBS Foundation
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 70 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Domain registered 11500 days ago
- 02501(c)(3) 509(a) Type 1 Supporting Organization with listed tax ID
- 03Physical address, phone, and email provided
Web research findings
Independent findings for foundation.pbs.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for foundation.pbs.org. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainfoundation.pbs.org
- Redirects tofoundation.pbs.org
- Hosted byAmazon Technologies Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · cdn.jsdelivr.net
Domain Timeline
- Apr 19, 1995Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 31 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 14, 2026Saved security review — Rated Safe
This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.
foundation.pbs.org has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (pbsfoundation@pbs.org).
- Phone number listed (22202 703-739-5051).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for *.pbs.org.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- jsDelivr
- Font Awesome
- Adobe Fonts
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://foundation.pbs.org/
- 2200https://foundation.pbs.org/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Apr 30, 2024 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Apr 30, 2024
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Official PBS Foundation donation site with long-established domain and verified nonprofit status.
foundation.pbs.org is the philanthropic arm of PBS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 2004. The site provides donation options to support PBS programming and initiatives. No security threats or deceptive commercial patterns are present.
09 · Community
Community
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