Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC
SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,784 to it, the largest being THE SOMERVILLE FOUNDATION INC ($29,252). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cambridge Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Metro North Regional Employment Boardlocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 16% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17 → $28.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS 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
SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
97% 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 SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 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 SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Cambridge Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 150 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Incshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Metro North Regional Employment Boardlocalportfolio matchMA · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fundshared fundersMA · backs 101 organizations that share your funders
- Chittenden Community Televisionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corporation for Public Broadcastingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hideo Sasaki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Documentary Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert O Wilson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timothy Smith Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC?
- SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,784 to it, the largest being THE SOMERVILLE FOUNDATION INC ($29,252). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $35,784 in grants to SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC?
- THE SOMERVILLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $29,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing