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MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS

MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,583,583 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,288,843). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$8.6M
Net assets
$2.4M
15/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications does

Mission

To inspire and enrich people and communities through meaningful storytelling, entertainment, education and public engagement

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program services include expenses for broadcast of instructional programs for schools, adult educational and children's instructional programs and public information programs.

    $1,729,715 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,729,715.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 103 ($2.2M) Expenses 88 ($2.5M) Net assets 93 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 105 ($2.2M) Expenses 87 ($2.4M) Net assets 91 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 116 ($2.4M) Expenses 86 ($2.4M) Net assets 103 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 168 ($3.5M) Expenses 87 ($2.4M) Net assets 194 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 108 ($2.3M) Expenses 84 ($2.3M) Net assets 204 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 115 ($2.4M) Expenses 89 ($2.5M) Net assets 202 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 108 ($2.3M) Expenses 91 ($2.5M) Net assets 184 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 110 ($2.3M) Expenses 90 ($2.5M) Net assets 170 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (110)Expenses (90)Net assets (170)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.9M to $3.6M (+25%).

$2.9M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.9M
$3.6M
$3.8M
$3.9M
$3.5M
$3.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 69% · 2018 67% · 2019 70% · 2020 68% · 2021 59% · 2022 64% · 2023 70% · 2024 75% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$672k
’17
−$297k
’18
−$209k
’19
$54k
’20
$1.1M
’21
−$56k
’22
−$35k
’23
−$252k
’24
−$202k
’25
2.6
months of
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.

Board chair

Reginald Carter

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed191517171919201919
Joined·+1+6+5+8+7+6+3+3
No longer listed·54567543
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $790k → $894k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Digital Promise Globalunclassified
$2k
funders
2
4
5
11
13
7
11
10
7
1

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS’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

MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

97%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 96% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 96% — 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

77% of MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

VT
NH
NY
VA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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 MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 New York

St Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council Inc80%Mount Vernon Public Library80%Mountain Lake Children's Residence Inc78%County Players Inc78%Onondaga County Public Library78%Friends of Beaver Lake Inc78%Lakewood Memorial Library77%Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc77%

Nationally

Mountain Lake Community Service Inc81%Mountain Home Arts Council Inc80%Lakeshore Players Inc80%St Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council Inc80%Mount Vernon Public Library80%The Mountain Lake Conservancy Inc79%Maui County Community Television Inc79%Montgomery County Library and Information Network Consortium79%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 18%Fundraising 13%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Centralcast LLC · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 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 MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS?
MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,583,583 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($8,288,843). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $8,583,583 in grants to MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $8,288,843 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 19 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