Vermont · Nonprofit
BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,011 to it, the largest being Chittenden Community Television ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $513k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $888k
What Brattleboro Community Television Inc does
Mission
Brattleboro Community Television, Inc. (BCTV) is a community media center serving eight towns in southern Windham County, Vermont. OUR MISSION - To promote civic engagement and transparency, and to empower community members to share their knowledge, views and creativity, WITHOUT PREDJUDICE. WHAT WE DO - As the one and only television outlet for the area, BCTV covers municipal government meetings, educational matters, and documents local events and activities. BCTV also provides equipment and training that allows community members to create content, reaching viewers on cable channels 8 and 10 on Southern Vermont Cable, and cable channels 1075 and 1085 on Comcast, and at brattleborotv.org.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Brattleboro community television, inc. (bctv) is a community television station that covers municipal government meetings, educational matters, and documents local events and activities. Bctv also provides equipment and training that allows community members to create content, reaching viewers on cable channels 1078 and 1079 on comcast, and on brattleborotv.org.
$342,121 spent$395,075 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $342,121.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $701k to $802k (+14%).
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.
12% of BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $5.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC’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
BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
90% 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 BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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 BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$21k
- Other Grants$19k
- Other Gr, Awds, Schlshps&Loans$13k
- Other Purchased Services$2k
- Trade Show & Events$275
- Dues$150
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC?
- BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,011 to it, the largest being Chittenden Community Television ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,011 in grants to BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC?
- Chittenden Community Television is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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