Ohio · Nonprofit
DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC
DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,600 to it, the largest being WPCU Sunshine Community Fund ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $518k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Dayton Public Access Television Inc does
Mission
Datv is a community forum that empowers all citizens to learn, create and express their ideas through electronic media.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Support the freedom to communicate by providing training, equipment, facilities and air time for local residents to produce their own non-commercial cable television programs. In-kind contributions-volunteers: volunteer services are valued at $15.00 per hour for a total value of services of $18,840 for the year. At the end of 2025 datv had approximately 240 members. During 2025 datv members produced 3,117 new tv programs. In addition, 61 different training classes and workshops serving 135 participants were offered during the year that allowed citizens to create their own television programs.
$475,161 spent$815 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $475,161.
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 $3.6M to $3.0M (−18%).
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 75% · 2018 65% · 2019 71% · 2020 85% · 2021 54% · 2022 66% · 2023 62% · 2024 59% · 2025 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Chief executive
Randy Phillips
Executive director
Board chair
Marlese Durr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
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 DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC.
“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
100% of DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC's grant income comes from Ohio 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
DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC's revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION 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 DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC?
- DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,600 to it, the largest being WPCU Sunshine Community Fund ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,600 in grants to DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC?
- WPCU Sunshine Community Fund is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAYTON PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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