Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia
Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia does
Mission
Provide fair and equitable opportunities for community residents and organizations to create non-commercial television programs and telecast them on cable channels, free of censorship or editorial control. Provide media education. Create and telecast community programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education:Participants received a total of 1,446 hours of education,including students from non-profit organizations, DCTVs membership,the general public, and interns. Programming:The cable providers who fund DCTV have granted it exclusive use and programming control of eight public access channels on which DCTV schedules and transmits community programming, most of which is produced and provided by DCTV members.Use of the channels is collectively valued at $95,532,400 based on a per subscriber valuation for Public, Educational and Government(PEG)channel usage.DCTV fulfills its mission to transmit community programming on the cable systems in the District of Columbia by supporting, scheduling and telecasting programming at no charge to DCTV members, and by creating, producing and telecasting DCTVs original locally focused programs.DCTVs volunteers contributed thousands of hours creating and providing the programming telecast on DCTVs 8 cable television channels.
$1,364,959 spent56% of program spendingProduction: During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, a total of 16,950 hours and 9,900 hours of facilities and equipment were used to create community focused original programming. DCTVs charitable work supported nonprofit organizations by producing video content in stories involving their organizations that were telecast and then licensed to them for use on their website and social media.
$1,063,176 spent44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,428,135.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $10M (−12%).
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: 2022 13% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nantz Rickard
President and CEO
Board chair
Cynthiana Lightfoot
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia’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 Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
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 Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia: 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 Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia?
- Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia.
- Who is the largest funder of Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia?
- THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Public Access Corp of the District of Columbia find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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