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NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC

NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,318 to it, the largest being PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY CABLE BROADCASTINGINC ($40,248). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$531k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$760k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Northampton Community Television Inc does

Mission

To serve as a model community access organization providing programming and educational opportunities to the community through all means technologically available.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provided the residents of the city of northampton with public education and training regarding the use of public access facilities and channels and provided access to channels, origination facilities, and production studios and equipment on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard for their various political, social, economic, religious, or other views or beliefs.

    $421,266 spent$466,355 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $421,266.

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 ($393k) Expenses 100 ($422k) Net assets 100 ($248k)2018 Revenue 152 ($598k) Expenses 107 ($450k) Net assets 160 ($396k)2019 Revenue 116 ($455k) Expenses 105 ($443k) Net assets 164 ($407k)2020 Revenue 126 ($494k) Expenses 85 ($359k) Net assets 219 ($542k)2021 Revenue 112 ($439k) Expenses 99 ($417k) Net assets 228 ($565k)2022 Revenue 116 ($454k) Expenses 95 ($399k) Net assets 250 ($619k)2023 Revenue 120 ($472k) Expenses 108 ($455k) Net assets 257 ($637k)2024 Revenue 135 ($531k) Expenses 97 ($407k) Net assets 306 ($760k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (97)Net assets (306)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 2017 to 2018, from $248k to $396k (+60%).

$248k
$396k
$407k
$542k
$600k
$653k
$679k
$805k
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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: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC’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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$29k
’17
$148k
’18
$11k
’19
$135k
’20
$22k
’21
$55k
’22
$17k
’23
$123k
’24
19
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

P Al Williams

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed7776811912
Joined·+3+2+0+2+4+1+4
No longer listed·3210131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14 → $28.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NORTHAMPTON 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

NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

100% of NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

Organizations like NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHAMPTON 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC?
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,318 to it, the largest being PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY CABLE BROADCASTINGINC ($40,248). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,318 in grants to NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC?
PITTSFIELD COMMUNITY CABLE BROADCASTINGINC is the largest funder on record, with $40,248 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC find more funders?
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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 2 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