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NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,800 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$930k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$5.5M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Needham Community Television Development Corporation does

Mission

The organization provides public, educational and governmental programming through the needham channel for cable television subscribers in the town of needham, massachusetts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Production of community news and events on local cable tv

    $690,122 spent$762,626 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $690,122.

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 ($813k) Expenses 100 ($545k) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2018 Revenue 104 ($848k) Expenses 116 ($630k) Net assets 101 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 117 ($951k) Expenses 115 ($626k) Net assets 115 ($4.8M)2020 Revenue 98 ($794k) Expenses 124 ($675k) Net assets 124 ($5.2M)2021 Revenue 127 ($1.0M) Expenses 123 ($669k) Net assets 139 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 88 ($719k) Expenses 129 ($704k) Net assets 122 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 99 ($805k) Expenses 139 ($760k) Net assets 130 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 114 ($930k) Expenses 160 ($872k) Net assets 131 ($5.5M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (160)Net assets (131)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 2021 to 2022, from $5.8M to $5.2M (−11%).

$4.2M
$4.2M
$4.8M
$5.3M
$5.8M
$5.2M
$5.4M
$5.5M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$268k
’17
$218k
’18
$325k
’19
$119k
’20
$367k
’21
$15k
’22
$45k
’23
$59k
’24
2.2
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.

Chief executive

Marc Mandel

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed88999999
Joined·+2+1+0+0+1+1+2
No longer listed·2000112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,800 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,800 in grants to NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Who is the largest funder of NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEEDHAM COMMUNITY TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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