Illinois · Nonprofit
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,403 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,860). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Naperville Community Television does
Mission
To deliver trusted local news and information that informs, connects, and empowers our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Nctv17 produces and distributes local news, stories, and information through television and digital platforms. Programming covers all aspects of community life and reflects diverse voices and perspectives to foster shared understanding and civic engagement.
$743,144 spent$790,589 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $743,144.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $933k to $1.2M (+30%).
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 56% · 2018 53% · 2019 58% · 2020 65% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 6% · 2024 6% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Elizabeth B Spencer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $654.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION’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
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 52% · 2022 97% · 2023 89% — 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
60% of NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
67% of NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.
Organizations like NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION: 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 NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION?
- NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,403 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,860). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $57,403 in grants to NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 9 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