· Public charity
Chittenden Community Television
To be a trusted source of community based channels, tools and training that helps citizens and organizations expand their reach and impact.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mount Mansfield Community Television | $45,000 |
| Okemo Valley TV Corp | $45,000 |
| Northeast Access Committee | $45,000 |
| Catamount Access Television Corporation | $45,000 |
| Springfield Area Public Access Television | $45,000 |
| Community Access Television dba Junction Arts Media | $45,000 |
| Rutland Community Television | $45,000 |
| Central Vermont Community Television | $45,000 |
| Brattleboro Community Televison Inc | $45,000 |
| Northwest PEG-TV Inc | $45,000 |
| The Media Factory | $45,000 |
| Greater Northshire Access Television | $45,000 |
| Lake Champlain Access TV | $45,000 |
| Onion River Community Access Media | $45,000 |
| Kingdom Access Television | $45,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Government Access TV Station
To be a trusted source of community based channels, tools and training that helps citizens and organizations expand their reach and impact.
To provide the Stoneham community with local public access television.
Lctv is a pbg (public, education and government access) tv station established in 1991. lctvs media center located in newcastle maine broadcasts 24/7 and reached approximately 5000 households in the midcoast region via cable and world via…
To provide the residents of the Town of Watertown, Massachusetts access to cable channels that promote talents, culture, ideas and community concerns.
Community access cable television for the dissemination of educational and informational material of public and local interest
To produce quality public, educational, and govermental ("PEG") access programming and to also provide free television production workshops for the residents and organizations of North Attleborough and Plainville, Massachusetts.
Saco river community television has been created to facilitate the exchange of information and to showcase the creative abilities of people in the surrounding area.
Provides town residents to local educational, governmental and community informational programs
To operate a noncommercial, public access television station; provide access to and training in public, educational, and governmental (PEG) cable television for Wayland residents and students; broadcast governmental meetings, school…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rutland Region Community Television % Thomas Leypoldt and the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Access Tv. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATAMOUNT ACCESS TELEVISION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Okemo Valley TV Corp ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds The Media Factory ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TV ↗
- Who funds RUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION % THOMAS LEYPOLDT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT COMMUNITY TELEVISIO ↗
- Who funds Community Access Television Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Access TV ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds Greater Northshire Access Television Inc ↗
- Who funds Northeast Access Committee ↗
- Who funds Falls Area Community Television Inc ↗
- Who funds Northeast Addison Television Inc ↗
- Who funds HARDWICK COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Mad River Valley Television Inc ↗
- Who funds Middlebury Community TV ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Community Television ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chittenden Community Television funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Media Factory — 2% of income from government
- Brattleboro Community Television Inc — 0% of income from government
- Onion River Community Access Media — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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