California · Nonprofit
Los Gatos Public Media Inc
Los Gatos Public Media Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,712 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,500). 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
- $431k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Los Gatos Public Media Inc does
Mission
KCAT TV15 contributes to the vitality of our Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and SiliconValley communities by serving as a connection for people to have a voice, sharetheir views, and produce local original content for broadcast. We educate, inform,entertain, and inspire, which ignites civic engagement, fosters involvement, andtells our community stories through the magic of television, radio, and digitalmedia. KCAT brings a voice and value to our residents by memorializing importantevents, and providing youth, teens, and seniors with opportunities to create, learn,and connect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
KCAT TV supports the Town government by filming, broadcasting and livestreaming all Los Gatos Town Council, Planning Commission and other special meetings. KCAT is on-the-scene year-round filming and livestreaming to memorialize local events such as the Los Gatos High School and middle school Graduations, Los Gatos Holiday Parade, Veterans Day Ceremonies, and Town events. KCAT proudly creates and produces original local TV shows and Video Podcast content such as Coffee&Candidates, Community Storytelling, Jazz Tonight, The Kimball Hooker Show, Lit with Lloyd, Wine with Bill and many more. KCAT offers video production services for nonprofits, corporations, community organizations, and student projects, as well as year-round TV Broadcasting, Podcasting, and Digital Storytelling camps and classes educating hundreds of students and adults. Most recently KCAT has launched The Producers Network for Adults 55+ to utilize their everyday skills to create TV content, have a voice, and tell their stories. KCAT TV & RADIO studios are open to the community for classes, shows and DIY services.As the local non-profit public TV station and media center, KCAT gives a voice to Los Gatos, Monte…
$404,191 spent$252,270 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $404,191.
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 $231k to $131k (−43%).
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: 2019 36% · 2020 54% · 2021 61% · 2022 36% · 2023 46% · 2024 37% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of Los Gatos Public Media 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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13 → $78.
2 of 2 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 Los Gatos Public Media 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
Los Gatos Public Media Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
100% 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 Los Gatos Public Media Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Los Gatos Public Media 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Los Gatos Public Media Inc's revenue grew 49% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Los Gatos Public Media 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Los Gatos Public Media 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 Los Gatos Public Media Inc?
- Los Gatos Public Media Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,712 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,500). 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 Los Gatos Public Media Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,712 in grants to Los Gatos Public Media Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Los Gatos Public Media Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Los Gatos Public Media Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing