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WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC
WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($17,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $323k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $693k
What Wallingford Public Access Association Inc does
Mission
To provide a brave, safe, creative space for a diversity of expression within our community of Wallingford, CT, and beyond, with media tools and space for media creation and distribution, inclusive of story performance, advocacy, concurrent with a public art gallery integrated throughout the building on related themes. Our studioW facility offers professional-grade equipment and production space, enabling anyone to develop high-quality digital content for community access television and their preferred distribution platforms. We are the home of the Nelson Carty Ford Memorial Art Gallery serrated to encourage social action and TeenTigerTV Youth Training and Empowerment program.Bylaws: to empower the people of Wallingford and beyond to uplift the community through story, conversation, and content creation by operating a community-centric digital media center and public art gallery. Goal: To operate a community-based media center, inclusive of a television studio...
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
To ensure long term sustainability amid shifting revenue streams the organization expanded its Community Development Strategic Plan. Key milestones included securing Program Related Investments known as PRIs. These are comprised of low interest operational loans and a long term no interest mortgage loan following a successful mortgage payoff. A significant one time Donor Advised Fund award was secured to bolster this strategy providing the required baseline for a matching Arts award in 2026. Furthermore this filing includes a restatement of a quasi endowment known as the Freeman Purse Fund which was previously misclassified as a standard investment. These combined fiscal strategies allow the organization to maintain its core mission and outreach in support of unhoused and socially challenged individuals as reflected in our permanent art collection and advocacy initiatives.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
A30 Maintained civic media infrastructure serving 16000 Wallingford households dozens of nonprofits and local businesses. Make TV our core program provides professional staff to train volunteer producers and facilitate media production and distribution. Annual outcome data filed with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority PURA includes 168 hours of weekly programming and 456 programs produced in studioW with nearly 4000 media assets managed annually. The facility operates 6 days 55 hours per week. Recognized for Overall Excellence by a New England peer association in 2025 all services are provided entirely free of charge to the public. WPAA does not sell merchandise or charge fees for its services ensuring equitable access to media tools for all residents.
$89,689 spent73% of program spendingA99 Art and Culture Program Democracy Is A Creative Practice. This initiative hosts storytelling and performance events featuring TV simulcast and onsite attendance. The organization manages an integrated art gallery showcasing photography sculpture upcycled and fine art designed to inspire community engagement and social action. We support festival and competition entries for youth and adult creators and host media making events focused on public interest stories and local history. The program actively engages the community in book publishing and documentary filmmaking. Award winning at the regional and national levels since 2025 all program activities and gallery access are provided free of charge to the public to ensure equitable participation in the creative process.
$15,326 spent13% of program spendingO99 Youth Training and Empowerment Program TeenTigerTV. This initiative recently honored with the Rika Welsh Award for a decade of community impact provides comprehensive media development for socially and economically disadvantaged youth. The core program consists of an intensive six week summer session 16 hours per week supplemented by extended hours during the school year. In 2025 the program served 12 core summer participants and 35 youth through specialized workshops and a new year round weekly drop in pilot extension. By offering professional grade training and mentorship entirely free of charge TeenTigerTV ensures that financial barriers do not prevent local youth from gaining critical 21st century digital literacy and storytelling skills.
$17,424 spent14% of program spendingS41 Community Development and Fiscal Sustainability Initiative. In response to declining cable franchise revenue the organization executed a Strategic Plan to ensure long term mission sustainability. A key achievement included securing Program Related Investments through Capital for Change comprised of low interest operational loans and a long term no interest mortgage loan. These fiscal strategies developed with stakeholder input directly enable the organization to sustain its service to underserved populations. This commitment is physically manifested in our permanent art collection and gallery which utilizes advocacy through art to highlight the lived experiences of the unhoused and socially challenged members of our community bridging fiscal management with social justice.
$0 spent$1,950 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,439.
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 2024 to 2025, from $492k to $693k (+41%).
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 33% · 2023 56% · 2024 38% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $7k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION 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
WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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 WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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 WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $249k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$244k
- State Aid Grants$6k
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.
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC?
- WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,000 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($17,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,000 in grants to WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC?
- CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALLINGFORD PUBLIC ACCESS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2 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