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COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC

COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$763k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$376k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Community Access Television for Malden Inc does

Mission

Urban media arts ("uma") provides community television programming, training, and the use of access facilities and equipment to malden, massachusetts residents, businesses and organizations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization offers programming and training to malden residents and organizations in community television and the use of access facilities and equipment.

    $542,775 spent$760,979 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $542,775.

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 ($658k) Expenses 100 ($749k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 104 ($685k) Expenses 98 ($737k) Net assets 95 ($950k)2019 Revenue 112 ($736k) Expenses 106 ($790k) Net assets 89 ($897k)2020 Revenue 117 ($773k) Expenses 102 ($765k) Net assets 90 ($904k)2021 Revenue 130 ($853k) Expenses 111 ($828k) Net assets 93 ($930k)2022 Revenue 120 ($789k) Expenses 103 ($773k) Net assets 94 ($945k)2023 Revenue 106 ($696k) Expenses 110 ($827k) Net assets 65 ($649k)2024 Revenue 92 ($602k) Expenses 108 ($809k) Net assets 44 ($442k)2025 Revenue 116 ($763k) Expenses 111 ($830k) Net assets 37 ($376k)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (111)Net assets (37)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $696k (−33%).

$1.0M
$973k
$934k
$939k
$965k
$1.0M
$696k
$481k
$507k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 92% · 2020 95% · 2021 94% · 2022 93% · 2023 90% · 2024 89% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$91k
’17
−$51k
’18
−$54k
’19
$8k
’20
$25k
’21
$16k
’22
−$132k
’23
−$207k
’24
−$67k
’25
1.1
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

Tina Legarde

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed97101010139109
Joined·+1+4+4+3+4+1+3+3
No longer listed·31431524
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.

Funder
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN 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.

Where its funders are

COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

MN

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

’19
’20
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 27%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN 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 COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC?
COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC?
Arts Midwest Incorporated is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION FOR MALDEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 1 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