California · Nonprofit
Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc
Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,272 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($91,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $748k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc does
Mission
Midpen Media Centers mission is to encourage and support community engagement, facilitate free speech, inspire expression, and reflect on our local cultural diversity by providing high-quality media resources and training to community members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Administer the Public Access channels on the cable TV system available to 32,314 homes in 5 cities. The Media Center does outreach, provides training and equipment, schedules, publicizes, cablecasts and/or webcasts programming produced by community members and staff on channels 27,28, and 30. The Media Center also administers the Government Access channels 26 & 29.
$161,010 spent50% of program spendingProduction/Media services enable community members, organizations, and government agencies to reach the public with their message. Free or low cost coverage of local arts and events including election related forums and high school sports were also provided.
$100,861 spent$89,509 earned by the program31% of program spendingThe Media Center hosts a variety of opportunities for youth to gain hands-on video production experience in a professional setting.
$60,609 spent$62,871 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $322,480.
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 $6.6M to $5.3M (−20%).
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: 2022 6% · 2024 26% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $16.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Midpeninsula Community Media Center 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
Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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 Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 83% · 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
69% of Midpeninsula Community Media Center 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. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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
Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $73k on record.
- Department of the Interior$73k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Midpeninsula Community Media Center 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
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 Midpeninsula Community Media Center 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 Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc?
- Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,272 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($91,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $131,272 in grants to Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $91,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Midpeninsula Community Media Center 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 4 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