California · Nonprofit
STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC
STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,831 to it, the largest being THE JOEL AND TERESA PFISTER FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $346k
What Student Television Network Inc does
Mission
To support, to promote, and to recognize excellence in scholastic broadcasting, in creative video & film making, and in interactive mediums in a global world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide educational opportunities for students to receive instruction from and network with industry professionals at our national convention. We offer training sessions and a variety of broadcasting and filmmaking competitions.
$530,627 spent$760,158 earned by the program82% of program spendingTo provide education and outreach by maintaining a website for teachers and students for online discussions, newsletters, national contest activities, and provide our members with educational and other resources including summer workshops.
$66,112 spent$24,283 earned by the program10% of program spendingTo hold national contests throughout the school year that recognize student achievement in the areas of broadcast journalism, video production, filmmaking, and media convergence.
$49,967 spent$80,000 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $646,706.
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 2019 to 2020, from $458k to $276k (−40%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $49k → $58.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK 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
STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 51% · 2019 96% · 2020 88% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK 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 STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC?
- STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,831 to it, the largest being THE JOEL AND TERESA PFISTER FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $84,831 in grants to STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC?
- THE JOEL AND TERESA PFISTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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