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WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC

WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being DEDHAM INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$405k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$592k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Westwood Media Center Inc does

Mission

Promote and enhance community access television content to westwood residents in order to support an informed and active citizenry while respecting the rights to free speech and creative expression

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote and enhance community access television content to westwood residents via cable and online channels in order to support an informed and active citizenry, increase the transparency and quality of civic decision making, deepen understanding of local issues of importance and promote civility in public dialogue, while respecting the rights to free speech and creative expression

    $302,702 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $302,702.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($324k) Expenses 100 ($342k) Net assets 100 ($617k)2019 Revenue 104 ($337k) Expenses 111 ($381k) Net assets 93 ($572k)2020 Revenue 110 ($355k) Expenses 111 ($381k) Net assets 89 ($546k)2021 Revenue 117 ($378k) Expenses 117 ($401k) Net assets 85 ($523k)2022 Revenue 113 ($366k) Expenses 118 ($403k) Net assets 79 ($487k)2023 Revenue 155 ($503k) Expenses 119 ($408k) Net assets 94 ($581k)2024 Revenue 132 ($425k) Expenses 125 ($429k) Net assets 94 ($578k)2025 Revenue 125 ($405k) Expenses 114 ($391k) Net assets 96 ($592k)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (114)Net assets (96)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $491k to $585k (+19%).

$617k
$572k
$546k
$527k
$491k
$585k
$579k
$592k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’18
−$44k
’19
−$26k
’20
−$23k
’21
−$37k
’22
$94k
’23
−$3k
’24
$14k
’25
15
months of
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.

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Listed66655445
Joined·+1+1+1+0+2+1+1
No longer listed·1120310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $10k.

Funder
'18
'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER 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.

Where its funders are

100% of WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve15.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 22%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER 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 WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC?
WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being DEDHAM INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC?
DEDHAM INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTWOOD MEDIA CENTER INC 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.

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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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