Arizona · Nonprofit
Cable TV Pioneers
Cable TV Pioneers (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,550 to it, the largest being Cable Television Laboratories Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Cable TV Pioneers runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- YWCA of Southern Arizonalocal
- Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artistsportfolio match
- Chittenden Community Televisionportfolio match
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.
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.
10% of Cable TV Pioneers’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Cable TV Pioneers’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Cable TV Pioneers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
Cable TV Pioneers draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- YWCA of Southern ArizonalocalAZ · funds 431 organizations near you
- Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artistsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chittenden Community Televisionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tampa Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association of Broadcastersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Broadcasting Serviceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ctia - the Wireless Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AGC Construction Advocacy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Independent Community Bankers of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corporation for Public Broadcastingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Castleman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern ArizonalocalAZ · funds 73 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Cable TV Pioneers
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cable TV Pioneers: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Cable TV Pioneers?
- Cable TV Pioneers (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,550 to it, the largest being Cable Television Laboratories Inc ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cable TV Pioneers have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $34,550 in grants to Cable TV Pioneers.
- Who is the largest funder of Cable TV Pioneers?
- Cable Television Laboratories Inc is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cable TV Pioneers find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing