Washington · Nonprofit
THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION
THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,677 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ($55,564). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $204k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $106k
- Net assets
- $450k
What Thurston Community Television does
Mission
Non-commercial media services and programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Production services - tctv provides creative and technical staff necessary to produce non-commercial video programming fro schools, nonprofit agencies and governmental entities. We create unique programs for our clients including government meetings, community events and cultural public affairs programming.
$213,284 spent$67,831 earned by the program42% of program spendingMedia education & equipment resources - tctv provides media production workshops for residents and organizations in the service area. We offered workshops and certified individuals to use our equipment and facilities to produce video programming. Additionally we held summer camps attended by youth ages 8-16. Tctv makes equipment available to trained members.
$150,552 spent$22,300 earned by the program30% of program spendingCable system channel management - tctv is the only local television resource in greater thurston county, wa. We manage four local cable channels in the public interest. Our public, educational, governmental (peg) access channels carry programs produced by local residents, organizations, government agencies and schools.
$75,276 spent15% of program spendingCommunity involvement & youth media - community involvement projects address the communication needs of nonprofit organizations and targeted populations. Additionally, local nonprofit organizations received assistance to craft effective media products to support their communication needs.
$69,001 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $508,113.
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 2021 to 2022, from $756k to $1.3M (+69%).
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 59% · 2018 57% · 2019 73% · 2020 76% · 2021 85% · 2022 91% · 2023 84% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Deborah Vinsel
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $28k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION’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
THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
100% 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 THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“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
53% of THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION: 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 THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION?
- THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,677 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ($55,564). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,677 in grants to THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION?
- The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound is the largest funder on record, with $55,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 3 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