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Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media

Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,462 to it, the largest being ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($129,245). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$542k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$129k
Net assets
$240k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media does

Mission

AIM supports, educates, and inspires diverse creators and fosters independent media production through community television, radio, and digital arts.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Media Distribution: Arlington Community Access Corporation (DBA Arlington Independent Media, AIM) distributes independent media via multiple avenues, including a content-rich website, two cable channels delivered direct to every subscriber in Arlington (Comcast channel 69 and Verizon channel 38), and an LPFM community radio station, WERA 96.7 FM. Both AIM TV and WERA radio programming stream online, taking content to a global audience. Programs are created by local volunteer producers and reflect a wide range of passions and community concerns.

    $198,863 spent$28,425 earned by the program
    47% of program spending
  2. Media Production Facilities: Arlington Community Access Corportaion (DBA Arlington Independent Media, AIM) fully equips media production facilities, such as TV recording studios, controll rooms, audio production suite, live radio broadcast booths, and classrooms for hands-on instruction in all stages of digital media productiona and editing. Facilities play host to county arts and local business district programming, enabling the community to partake in programs not otherwise accessible.

    $184,882 spent$26,428 earned by the program
    44% of program spending
  3. Media Training: Arlingtong Community Access Corporation (DBA Arlington Indepedent Media, AIM) provides comprehensicve basic training and master-level advanced instruction in audio, video, and digital media recording, editing, post-production and distribution.

    $36,860 spent$5,269 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $420,605.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 54 ($585k) Expenses 96 ($1.0M) Net assets 70 ($802k)2019 Revenue 71 ($769k) Expenses 96 ($1.0M) Net assets 48 ($558k)2020 Revenue 59 ($644k) Expenses 71 ($743k) Net assets 40 ($458k)2021 Revenue 55 ($603k) Expenses 49 ($514k) Net assets 47 ($547k)2022 Revenue 50 ($542k) Expenses 81 ($850k) Net assets 21 ($240k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (50)Expenses (81)Net assets (21)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $666k to $264k (−60%).

$1.3M
$950k
$618k
$577k
$666k
$264k
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 58% · 2019 56% · 2020 64% · 2021 82% · 2022 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
−$424k
’18
−$243k
’19
−$99k
’20
$89k
’21
−$308k
’22
1.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Whytni Kernodle

CEO

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

201720182019202020212022
Listed171516151014
Joined·+3+8+3+3+7
No longer listed·57483
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $63.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 47%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media?
Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,462 to it, the largest being ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($129,245). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $129,462 in grants to Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media?
ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $129,245 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Arlington Community Access Corporation dba Arlington Independent Media find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing