Maine · Nonprofit
PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER
PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,500 to it, the largest being ROGER K BERLE CHARITABLE TRUST ($37,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Portland Media Center does
Mission
The Portland Media Center offers training in many facets of media and production. From television broadcasting, to camera workshops, storytelling and podcasting. Portland Media Center is dedicated to bringing the tools of the trade of media production to the community of Portland. The Portland Media Center is committed to democratizing access, encouraging creative collaboration, supporting free expression and strengthening civic engagement through traditional syndicated programming, member-created content, and original productions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Portland Media Center provides equipment, facilities, and expert knowledge to the residents of Portland and nonprofit organizations to produce programming that can be aired on Portland's public channel. During the fiscal year 2024-2025 Portland Media Center had 65 studio workshops, our field equipment was loaned out 296 times and the studios were used on 366 occasions. The podcast studio recorded 39 sessions. Our studio was booked for 491 hours and we produced 90 different shows for over 334 broadcasts. 25 different nonprofits produced over 200 hours of content through broadcast, podcast and event coverage.
$323,164 spentof which $179,500 as grants$160,238 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,164.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $114k to $65k (−43%).
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: 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 44% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Thomas Handel
Executive Director
Board chair
Jean Haney
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER’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
PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 49% · 2019 49% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“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
PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER: 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 PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER?
- PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER (Maine) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,500 to it, the largest being ROGER K BERLE CHARITABLE TRUST ($37,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $103,500 in grants to PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER?
- ROGER K BERLE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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