Virginia · Nonprofit
HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,346,343 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($15,900,671). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc does
Mission
Improve the civic, educational & cultural life of the citizens of eastern va through the production and distrib. Of important and impactful local, national, and educational content.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Broadcast and digital content- whro public media is the local public television broadcaster in eastern virginia, providing quality television programming on four channels 24 hours a day. From children's shows like sesame street, daniel tiger's neighborhood to pbs showcase programs like nova, masterpiece, pbs newshour, american experience and frontline, whro-tv 15 provides quality programming for all ages. Local broadcasts and digital content include, curate, and documentaries such as city voices: homelessness to hopefulness. Whro broadcasts educational television that delights children while building reading, science, technology and math skills, programs for life-long learning, public affairs analysis and documentaries, performance programming celebrating cultural diversity and the country, acclaimed history, science and nature programming, and the best in independent films. Whrv 89.5 fm radio is the place to hear npr programs like morning edition and all things considered, american public media's marketplace, as well as alternative, jazz and folk music. Another view hosted by barbara hamm lee provides a forum to the open exchange of ideas and opinions. Podcasts/broadcasts include…
$7,306,396 spent$248,891 earned by the program56% of program spendingDelivers early learning, teacher training, and online content creation and distribution services, including online high school education courses correlated to the virginia standards of learning, and a digital asset library of tens of thousands of rich media elements provided to all registered public, private and home school teachers and students, and all school divisions in the state.
$2,949,909 spent$1,193,439 earned by the program23% of program spendingProviding online support for emedia va to schools,students,and teachers troughout virginia. Provides technology services to the internal staff and platforms for streaming services. Provide and maintain technologies that secure the private information provided by our viewers and listeners from internet fraud.provide telecommunications for cell phone companies 24/7, 365 days and provides maintenance,repair and engineering services for television and radio studios and our transmitters located throughout eastern virginia and virginia's eastern shore.
$2,794,917 spent$2,149,591 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,051,222.
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 2019 to 2020, from $23M to $32M (+40%).
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 15% · 2021 12% · 2022 9% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
Bertel Schmidt
President & CEO
Board chair
Yvonne Allmond
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $2.4M.
17 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $1.6M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hampton Roads Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 90% · 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
46% of HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC?
- HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,346,343 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($15,900,671). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $18,346,343 in grants to HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $15,900,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 57 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing