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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.

$955k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brattleboro Community Televison Inc$45,000
The Media Factory$45,000
Springfield Area Public Access Television$45,000
Community Access Television dba Junction Arts Media$45,000
Rutland Community Television$45,000
Mount Mansfield Community Television$45,000
Central Vermont Community Television$45,000
Okemo Valley TV Corp$45,000
Northwest PEG-TV Inc$45,000
Greater Northshire Access Television$45,000
Lake Champlain Access TV$45,000
Northeast Access Committee$45,000
Onion River Community Access Media$45,000
Catamount Access Television Corporation$45,000
Kingdom Access Television$45,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Northwest PEG-TV Inc: $45k → 9%Springfield Area Public Access Television: $45k → 9%Middlebury Community TV: $35k → 9%Green Mountain Access TV: $35k → 9%Central Vermont Community Television: $45k → 9%The Media Factory: $45k → 10%Falls Area Community Television Inc: $35k → 11%Greater Northshire Access Television: $45k → 11%Kingdom Access Television: $45k → 12%Rutland Community Television: $45k → 12%Northeast Access Committee: $45k → 14%Okemo Valley TV Corp: $45k → 9%Northeast Addision Television Inc: $35k → 9%Onion River Community Access Media: $45k → 9%Mount Mansfield Community Television: $45k → 10%Brattleboro Community Televison Inc: $45k → 11%Catamount Access Television Corporation: $45k → 11%Kingdom Access Television: $35k → 12%Windsor Area Communtiy Television: $35k → 9%Mad River Valley Television Inc: $35k → 9%Lake Champlain Access TV: $45k → 10%Woodstock Community Television: $35k → 9%Community Access Television dba Junction Arts Media: $45k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chittenden Cty Govt Access Channel Trust

Government Access TV Station

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2
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.

Arts & Culture
3
Worcester Community Cable Access Inc
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4
Stoneham Community Access Inc

To provide the Stoneham community with local public access television.

Arts & Culture
5
Lincoln County 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…

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6
Watertown Cable Access Corporation

To provide the residents of the Town of Watertown, Massachusetts access to cable channels that promote talents, culture, ideas and community concerns.

Arts & Culture
7
Greenfield Community Television Inc

Community access cable television for the dissemination of educational and informational material of public and local interest

Arts & Culture
8
North Attleborough Community Television

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Saco River Community Television

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Bloomfield Access Television

Provides town residents to local educational, governmental and community informational programs

Arts & Culture
11
Guilford Community Television
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12
Wayland Community Access and Media Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rutland Region Community Television % Thomas Leypoldt; 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.
03the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA: $45,000 · Arts & CultureONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIAOkemo Valley TV Corp: $45,000 · Arts & CultureOkemo Valley TV CorpSPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISIONThe Media Factory: $45,000 · Arts & CultureThe Media FactoryBRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureBRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INCLAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TV: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TVRUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION % THOMAS LEYPOLDT: $45,000 · Arts & CultureRUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION % THOMAS LEYPOLDTCENTRAL VERMONT COMMUNITY TELEVISIO: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL VERMONT COMMUNITY TELEVISIOCommunity Access Television Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Access Television IncNORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED: $45,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATEDKingdom Access TV: $45,000 · Arts & CultureKingdom Access TVMOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISIONGreater Northshire Access Television Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Northshire Access Television IncNortheast Access Committee: $45,000 · Arts & CultureNortheast Access CommitteeFalls Area Community Television Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNortheast Addison Television Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureHARDWICK COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMad River Valley Television Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMiddlebury Community TV: $35,000 · Arts & CultureWoodstock Community Television: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCATAMOUNT ACCESS TELEVISION CORPORATION: $45,000 · OtherCATAMOUNT ACC…Windsor Area Communtiy Television: $35,000 · OtherWindsor Area …Green Mountain Access TV: $35,000 · OtherGreen Mountai…
Arts & Culture$840,000Other$115,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATAMOUNT ACCESS TELEVISION CORPORATION: $45,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA: $45,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetOkemo Valley TV Corp: $45,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION: $45,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetThe Media Factory: $45,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TV: $45,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetRUTLAND REGION COMMUNITY TELEVISION % THOMAS LEYPOLDT: $45,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT COMMUNITY TELEVISIO: $45,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCommunity Access Television Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetNORTHWEST P E G TV INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetKingdom Access TV: $45,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMOUNT MANSFIELD COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $45,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGreater Northshire Access Television Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNortheast Access Committee: $45,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFalls Area Community Television Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNortheast Addison Television Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetHARDWICK COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetMad River Valley Television Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetMiddlebury Community TV: $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWoodstock Community Television: $35,000 over 1y, 25% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chittenden Community Television funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chittenden Community Television. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Chittenden Community Television?

Find your warmest path to Chittenden Community Television through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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