New York · Nonprofit
Rochester Community TV Inc
Rochester Community TV Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,831 to it, the largest being ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($230,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $459k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Rochester Community TV Inc does
Mission
The mission of Rochester Community TV is to give the City of Rochester residents a forum for the free expression of ideas and the expertise and technology to express them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To operate public access cable television channels for residents of the City of Rochester, and to provide for citizen participation in and of the electronic medium operating in the local community.Accomplishments during the year included:1. Members provide creative and financial support to Rochester Community TV.2. Adult students participated in RCTV classes and workshops to learn media production skills. Topics included, beginning and intermediate video editing, studio-based production, basics of animation, acting and podcasting and broadcasting(Continued on Schedule O)3. RCTV was the site for youth programs including financial literacy training, making healthy choices, audio and video production, podcasting, and broadcasting in collaboration with community partners.4. RCTV staff and volunteer producers create about several programs each year, including special and series. This amounts to many hours of original programming each year.5. RCTV maintains and regularly updates a website, and social media platforms to share info about new classes and workshops, new programs, and new RCTV / WXIR projects.6. RCTV supports an LPFM station to serve the community of Rochester. The station…
$194,111 spent$50,337 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $194,111.
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.
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 $411k to $1.3M (+220%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 12% · 2021 14% · 2022 30% · 2024 1% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of Rochester Community TV Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $34k → $205k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Rochester Community TV 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
Rochester Community TV Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 65% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 76% · 2023 71% — 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
100% of Rochester Community TV Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Against its field
Rochester Community TV Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Rochester Community TV Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Rochester Community TV 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 Rochester Community TV 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 Rochester Community TV Inc?
- Rochester Community TV Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,831 to it, the largest being ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($230,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rochester Community TV Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $458,831 in grants to Rochester Community TV Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rochester Community TV Inc?
- ESL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rochester Community TV Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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