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Watertown Cable Access Corporation

Watertown Cable Access Corporation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,237 to it, the largest being WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC WILLIAM B FORD TREASURER ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$620k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$8k
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funders

Against its field

Watertown Cable Access Corporation is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($754k) Expenses 100 ($719k) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 92 ($697k) Expenses 110 ($794k) Net assets 95 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 91 ($685k) Expenses 112 ($804k) Net assets 90 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 87 ($654k) Expenses 100 ($718k) Net assets 87 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 84 ($630k) Expenses 97 ($700k) Net assets 83 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 84 ($634k) Expenses 105 ($757k) Net assets 78 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 51 ($382k) Expenses 108 ($777k) Net assets 59 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 82 ($620k) Expenses 92 ($663k) Net assets 57 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (92)Net assets (57)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of Watertown Cable Access Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
17
$97k
18
$119k
19
$64k
20
$70k
21
$123k
22
$395k
23
$43k
24
8.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)91% 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 Watertown Cable Access Corporation’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

Watertown Cable Access Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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

91% 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 Watertown Cable Access Corporation.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

91% of Watertown Cable Access Corporation'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 $737 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 Watertown Cable Access Corporation

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 39%Fundraising 6%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Watertown Cable Access Corporation: 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 Watertown Cable Access Corporation?
Watertown Cable Access Corporation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,237 to it, the largest being WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC WILLIAM B FORD TREASURER ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Watertown Cable Access Corporation have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,237 in grants to Watertown Cable Access Corporation.
Who is the largest funder of Watertown Cable Access Corporation?
WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC WILLIAM B FORD TREASURER is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Watertown Cable Access Corporation 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 2funders 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