Vermont · Nonprofit
The Media Factory
The Media Factory (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,005 to it, the largest being Chittenden Community Television ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What The Media Factory does
Mission
We work tirelessly to advance free and open media, civic engagmeent and government transparency so that our communities are informed, connected and resilient. These values guide our collective efforts noted below at the Media Factory
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Media Factorys main programs are the public access,educational access and government access services we provide at no cost to our community. Our public access program provides members with production equipment and limited staff support to produce non-commercial video content of a community interest nature. The Media Factory remains content neutral, acting as a conduit between the community member and the community itself. Resources include a production studio, multiple edit suites, equipment available for offsite use. Facilities and resources are available to anyone who lives or works in the Media Factorys service area as determined by contractual obligations with the local cable providers.
$332,479 spent30% of program spendingThe Media Factory provides educational access services for a number of towns in northwestern Vermont, including Chittenden County and Northern Addison County, determined by contractual obligations with local cable providers and regulated by state franchising authority. Educational access services provide the opportunity for schools, other educational organizations, and community scholars to acquire, produce and cablecast educational programs, arts and cultural events, learning events and educational policy coverage via the Media Factorys educational access channels.
$332,479 spent30% of program spendingThe Media Factory also provides government access services for a number of towns in southern Chittenden County and Northern Addison County, determined by contractual obligations with local cable providers and regulated by state franchising authority. Media Factory staff attends and records local municipal meetings, prepares content for distribution and then distributes through local government access channel and web site.
$166,239 spent15% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 166,239, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 The Media Factory has an educational mission and services related to media content production. The Media Factory has regularly scheduled workshops that introduce community members to media production techniques. The Media Factory also has additional educational resources that include specialized seminars, one on one training sessions, online and onsite training resources. The Media factory also operates a community radio program that includes lowpower FM radio station operations as part of their media education mission. Program Service Expenses 110,826, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 The Media Factorys additional programs include its Community Partner Services which provide in-house production services for areas identified as important community interest programming, incoporating video content into social media strategies and developing other media strategies for local nonprofits and community organizatios, media education, and facilities rentals.
$277,065 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,108,262.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $3.4M (+53%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of The Media Factory’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $5.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 The Media Factory’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
The Media Factory leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
98% 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 The Media Factory.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 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 The Media Factory's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
The Media Factory holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Media Factory receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42k on record.
- Contr&3rd Pty-Educ & Training$24k
- Other Grants$17k
- Trade Show & Events$1k
- Contr&3rd Pty-Appr/Engineering$300
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 The Media Factory
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 The Media Factory: 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 The Media Factory?
- The Media Factory (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,005 to it, the largest being Chittenden Community Television ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Media Factory have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,005 in grants to The Media Factory.
- Who is the largest funder of The Media Factory?
- Chittenden Community Television is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Media Factory find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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