Kansas · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection
COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,146 to it, the largest being HUMANITIES KANSAS INC ($10,146). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $16k
What COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection does
Mission
ACTIVITY: Distribution of non-commercial, educational, community-based media programs and information to local citizens and provide equipment and technical knowledge for local citizens who produce programs. MISSION: Community Access Television of Salina, Inc., is a community-based media company designed to promote citizen participation. Our mission is to build the community by providing a forum for communication through the use of electronic media. We provide the proper training and equipment necessary to allow any citizen the opportunity to exercise their first amendment right to free speech.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
On its FY2021 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization was defunded by the City of Salina on June 1, 2021, and reduced program services to the City of Salina. It now provides a smaller number of fee-based and volunteer services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Distributtion of non-commercial, public, educational, community-based media programs and information to local citizens and provide equipment and technical knowledge for local citizens who produce programs.
$104,007 spentof which $1,851 as grants$128,681 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,007.
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 2021 to 2022, from $201k to $16k (−92%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 90% · 2021 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Greg Stephens
Treasurer and Interim Executive Director
Board chair
Nancy Klostermeyer
Board Chairperson
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
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 COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection’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
COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
67% 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 COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection.
“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
67% of COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection's revenue fell 89% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,327 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection: 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 OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection?
- COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,146 to it, the largest being HUMANITIES KANSAS INC ($10,146). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,146 in grants to COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection?
- HUMANITIES KANSAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,146 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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