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Chittenden Community Television

Chittenden Community Television (Vermont) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,154,581 to it, the largest being Chittenden Cty Govt Access Channel Trust ($3,461,232). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$879k
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Chittenden Community Television does

Mission

To be a trusted source of community based channels, tools and training that helps citizens and organizations expand their reach and impact.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Town Meeting TV is a 24-hour government access channel serving cable subscribers in Chittenden County, Vermont. Town Meeting TV provides coverage of municipal meetings, legislative events, notable speakers, press conferences, nightly live call-in shows and comprehensive election coverage. Town Meeting TV is overseen by the Chittenden County Government Access Trust, comprised of municipal appointees who contract with CCTV to operate Town Meeting TV. CCTV operates Town Meeting TV through the provision of management, production, training and marketing services.

    $633,630 spent$43,685 earned by the program
    46% of program spending
  2. CCTV Productions produces video event coverage and documentary programs for nonprofit organizations for the purpose of public education and community outreach.

    $107,282 spent$51,251 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  3. Vermont Language Justice Project VLJP advances language access for Vermonters with Limited English Proficiency LEP through partnerships, technical assistance, and regular production and distribution of essential public health information in audio/video formats translated to 16 languages, including English.

    $639,501 spent$381,743 earned by the program
    46% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,380,413.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($900k) Expenses 100 ($877k) Net assets 100 ($279k)2018 Revenue 96 ($867k) Expenses 97 ($851k) Net assets 106 ($295k)2019 Revenue 82 ($737k) Expenses 78 ($682k) Net assets 126 ($350k)2020 Revenue 81 ($729k) Expenses 83 ($725k) Net assets 127 ($354k)2021 Revenue 85 ($763k) Expenses 87 ($762k) Net assets 165 ($459k)2022 Revenue 103 ($924k) Expenses 101 ($887k) Net assets 177 ($495k)2023 Revenue 199 ($1.8M) Expenses 194 ($1.7M) Net assets 213 ($593k)2024 Revenue 282 ($2.5M) Expenses 278 ($2.4M) Net assets 249 ($694k)2025 Revenue 183 ($1.6M) Expenses 167 ($1.5M) Net assets 316 ($879k)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (167)Net assets (316)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $623k to $919k (+47%).

$328k
$306k
$364k
$507k
$490k
$552k
$623k
$919k
$1.1M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of Chittenden Community Television’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
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$16k
’18
$56k
’19
$4k
’20
$714
’21
$36k
’22
$95k
’23
$98k
’24
$183k
’25
1.2
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed6108777999
Joined·+6+1+0+1+2+5+0+6
No longer listed·23112306
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $674k → $695k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Chittenden Community Television’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

Chittenden Community Television leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

98% 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 Chittenden Community Television.

83%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of Chittenden Community Television's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of Chittenden Community Television's grant income comes from Vermont funders.

VT
NH
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $436k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

Chittenden Community Television runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Chittenden Community Television receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.

State$2.7M
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Top programs
  • Grants$1.0M
  • Other Grants$719k
  • Rural Health System Improvemnt$549k
  • Misc. Grants$140k
  • Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$85k
  • Other Purchased Services$66k

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 Chittenden Community Television

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 1%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Chittenden County Govt Access · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chittenden Community Television: 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 Chittenden Community Television?
Chittenden Community Television (Vermont) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,154,581 to it, the largest being Chittenden Cty Govt Access Channel Trust ($3,461,232). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chittenden Community Television have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,154,581 in grants to Chittenden Community Television, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chittenden Community Television?
Chittenden Cty Govt Access Channel Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,461,232 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chittenden Community Television 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.

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 13 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