Maryland · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC
COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $223 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($223). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $223
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Community Media Center of Carroll County Inc does
Mission
The mission of the community media center is to provide innovative digital technologies and content to inform, engage and connect the many voices and interests of our communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy25 the community media center (cmc) worked to increase the quality, engagement and efficiency of our content production and build partnerships with community organizations, schools and members while focusing on being good stewards of our resources. The community media center aired 429 original programs on cable channel hd-1072 resulting in a total of 323 programming hours. Cmc's local sports coverage, central maryland sports network branded as cmsportsnet, constituted 280 of those original programs, generating 189 total hours of local sports programming. Cable channel 19 aired 106 programs that were community produced or submitted on behalf of local organizations for a total of 86 programming hours channel 23 aired 235 original programs for a total of 234 hours of programming this is a 21% increase in coverage compared to fy24 and 10% increase in total programming hours interest in cmc's online content grew across multiple platforms. In february 2025, the cmc launched a new website. The goal was to create a robust web content management solution that uses current technology, at a lower cost to maintain, including subsequent upgrades, and will take advantage of a robust…
$1,071,159 spent$35,169 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,071,159.
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 $4.0M to $4.6M (+15%).
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: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% · 2024 93% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Theresa Bethune
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $56 → $41.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY 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
100% of COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223 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
COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY 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 MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC?
- COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $223 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($223). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $223 in grants to COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $223 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF CARROLL COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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