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OTV Open Television Inc

OTV Open Television Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,393,407 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($2,330,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
$1.9M
9/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What OTV Open Television Inc does

Mission

Research and development through ARTIST DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT and Research.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 1) ARTIST DEVELOPMENT: We prioritize helping artists develop their projects from production to release. Our primary function is support. We offer financing, consultation, and referrals in order to get projects through to completion. We also help artists establish a plan and trajectory for their careers and works. We only develop artists in Chicago. 2) COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: We provide a space for different communities to come together to experience culture, have critical conversations about identity, and meet people across social networks. Chicago is our primary community, followed by national and global communities united by intersectionality. 3) RESEARCH: All activities provide for data to help us understand how to develop intersectional art and TV. This data is published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and books. More general findings are published in annual development reports for the public and industry.

    $948,145 spent$91,407 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $948,145.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($417k) Expenses 100 ($196k) Net assets 100 ($297k)2020 Revenue 78 ($326k) Expenses 213 ($418k) Net assets 69 ($205k)2021 Revenue 304 ($1.3M) Expenses 395 ($774k) Net assets 236 ($701k)2022 Revenue 273 ($1.1M) Expenses 359 ($704k) Net assets 383 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 241 ($1.0M) Expenses 421 ($825k) Net assets 443 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 490 ($2.0M) Expenses 624 ($1.2M) Net assets 719 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 312 ($1.3M) Expenses 787 ($1.5M) Net assets 639 ($1.9M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (312)Expenses (787)Net assets (639)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $2.2M (+64%).

$325k
$207k
$710k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$2.2M
$1.9M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of OTV Open Television Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$221k
’19
−$92k
’20
$496k
’21
$436k
’22
$179k
’23
$819k
’24
−$239k
’25
11
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed65553310
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+8
No longer listed·101201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $0 → $1.1M.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 OTV Open 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

OTV Open Television Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

53%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 89% · 2020 84% · 2021 44% · 2022 47% · 2023 30% — 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 OTV Open Television Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

OTV Open Television Inc draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
CA
UT

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $625k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

OTV Open Television Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like OTV Open 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 Illinois

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 23%Fundraising 15%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

32%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OTV Open 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 OTV Open Television Inc?
OTV Open Television Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,393,407 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($2,330,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OTV Open Television Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,393,407 in grants to OTV Open Television Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OTV Open Television Inc?
SURDNA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OTV Open Television Inc 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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