Ohio · Nonprofit
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,724,139 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($10,463,719). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV does
Mission
To strengthen the communities we serve through programs and services that inspire and inform, educate and engage, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning and the power of diverse perspectives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Greater Dayton's leading provider of education and enrichment in both living rooms and classrooms, reaching more than 750,000 viewers, 400,000 students and 20,000 teachers. Through PBS and local programming, THINKTV.org innovative multimedia curriculum projects, parent workshops and professional development for teachers, THINK TV positively impacts our community with rich and diverse resources, provides multichannel broadcast and cable services.
$3,863,662 spent$734,660 earned by the program100% of program spendingDonated materials and professional services with a value of $676,988 were received in the current year.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,863,662.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.7M to $24M (+209%).
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 29% · 2018 33% · 2019 49% · 2020 45% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 33% · 2024 30% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Dorthy K Lensman
President & CEO
Board chair
Dave Taylor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.3M.
8 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Public Media Connect). These are real filings, and they are not money Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV raised.
From the IRS filings of Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 81% · 2019 81% · 2020 76% · 2021 86% · 2022 88% · 2023 79% — 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
47% of Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV
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
67% 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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation · exempt
- Public Media Connect · exempt
- Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV: 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 Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV?
- Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,724,139 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($10,463,719). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $12,724,139 in grants to Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $10,463,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV 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 48 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