Maryland · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,268 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ($1,428,173). 2 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.
Against its field
MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Pettit Family Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Adventist Healthcare Incshared funderslocal
- Chittenden Community Televisionportfolio match
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.
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 74% · 2018 73% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 85% · 2022 88% · 2023 88% · 2024 90% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $195k → $267k.
3 of 4 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 MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY 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
MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Pettit Family Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchMD · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Adventist Healthcare Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you
- Chittenden Community Televisionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Public Broadcasting Serviceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corporation for Public Broadcastingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Joyce Caddell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Documentary Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Storycorps Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert F Henry Foundation 1155000715portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% 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 MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC?
- MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,447,268 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ($1,428,173). 2 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 MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,447,268 in grants to MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $1,428,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing