How much does Ncta - the Internet & Television Association give?

Ncta - the Internet & Television Association reported 73 itemized grants totaling $2,192,146, out of $2,294,131 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 82 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ncta - the Internet & Television Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (32%), Civil Rights (14%), Community Improvement (11%).

Who are Ncta - the Internet & Television Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Technology Policy Institute ($1.8M), Ncta Education Foundation Inc ($1.2M), The Free State Foundation Inc ($1.2M).

Does Ncta - the Internet & Television Association fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ncta - the Internet & Television Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Motion Picture Association Inc, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Mywirelessorg.

Where is Ncta - the Internet & Television Association based?

Ncta - the Internet & Television Association is based in DC.

Ncta - the Internet & Television Association

Ncta - the Internet & Television Association at a glance

· Public charity

Ncta - the Internet & Television Association

Ncta's mission is to advance the cable & telecommunications industry's public policy interest, and to promote the industry's developments to better serve the american public.

$2.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$6.0MCivil Rights$2.6MCommunity Improvement$2.1MSocial Science$2.0MInternational$1.9MEducation$1.3MScience & Tech$1.0MArts & Culture$912kOther$0

02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 73 grants below total $2,192,146, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,294,131 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $101,985 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $44k
$10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$104M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TECHNOLOGY POLICY INSTITUTE	$200,000
THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION INC	$175,000
MULTICULTURAL MEDIA TELECOM AND INTERNET COUNCIL	$125,000
THIRD WAY FOUNDATION	$100,000
ITIF (INFORMATION TECHNOLGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION)	$75,000
INTERNATIONAL POLICY NETWORK US INC	$75,000
NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL	$75,000
SPECTRUM FOR THE FUTURE	$58,333
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION	$50,000
PHOENIX CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL & ECONOMIC PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES	$50,000
NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATURES	$50,000
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM	$50,000
WIFIFORWARD	$45,000
ALLVANZA	$40,000
LGBT TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP	$40,000

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$17M · 105 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

105 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105

Total granted

$17M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+42%

Still filing today

87%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

NY
NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +63%
IT
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $555k · revenue +57%
IP
INTERNATIONAL POLICY NETWORK US INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $435k · revenue +227%

Funded once

NE
NCTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $1.2M · revenue +213% · 100% of their budget
BF
Broadband for America
one grant, 2017 · $292k · revenue -96%
CF
CENTER FORWARDgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $77k · revenue +124%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science

The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit

News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

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Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit

National Cable Satellite Corporation

Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…

Arts & Culture

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International

United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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National Center for Apec

Ncapec is the only u.s. business association focused exclusively on facilitating american private sector input to the apec process. programs typically feature discussions between business, government and academia on key trade and economic…

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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Technology Policy Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

125 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. 125 of the 144 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

120/125

Grantees still filing

83/125

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$7,719,318Public Benefit$2,819,098Education$2,695,110Civil Rights$1,809,380International$1,804,600Community Improvement$1,264,505Social Science$899,400

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Motion Picture Association IncCA67.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Motion Picture Association Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Mywirelessorg · Ctia - the Wireless Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · United States Telecom Association · National Association of Broadcasters · AARP · NetChoice · Consumer Technology Association · Charles Koch Institute · The Business Roundtable Inc

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 Ncta - the Internet & Television Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ncta - the Internet & Television Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home