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Window to the World Communications Inc

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$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$100M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Window to the World Communications Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$23k67%
FY20236$47k50%
FY20224$32kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$72kEducation$23kYouth Development$7k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
WY
OH
UT
CO
AZ
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV$30,00030%
New England Public Media Inc$15,00020%
University of Utah$14,0002n/a
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$8,55010%
Central Wyoming College Foundation$7,25010%
Pbs North Carolina$7,1451n/a
South Florida Pbs Inc$7,00010%
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas$7,00010%
Colorado Public Television$6,00010%

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.

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · Public Broadcasting Service · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Window to the World Communications Inc

How much does Window to the World Communications Inc give?
Window to the World Communications Inc reported 3 grants totaling $23,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Window to the World Communications Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Education (22%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Window to the World Communications Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ($30k), New England Public Media Inc ($15k), University of Utah ($14k).
Does Window to the World Communications Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Window to the World Communications Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Where is Window to the World Communications Inc based?
Window to the World Communications Inc is based in IL.

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 9 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 $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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