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Chittenden Community Television

Burlington, VT · EIN 22-2582888. Reported 23 grants totalling $955,000 to 23 organizations across tax years 2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$45,000median reported grant
$955,000granted, 2023
5%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Chittenden Community Television, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A32Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $45,000. Half of what it reported fell between $35,000 and $45,000; the smallest was $35,000 and the largest $45,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$25,000 - $50,000
23 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Brattleboro Community Television IncBrattleboro, VT$45,000112023
Catamount Access Television CorporationBennington, VT$45,000112023
Catv IncWhite River Junction, VT$45,000112023
Central Vermont Community TelevisionBarre, VT$45,000112023
Greater Northshire Access Television IncManchestr Ctr, VT$45,000112023
Kingdom Access TelevisionSt Johnsbury, VT$45,000112023
Lake Champlain Access Television IncColchester, VT$45,000112023
Mount Mansfield Community Television IncColchester, VT$45,000112023
Northeast Access CommitteeNewport, VT$45,000112023
Northwest P E G Tv IncorporatedSt Albans, VT$45,000112023
Okemo Valley Tv CorpLudlow, VT$45,000112023
Onion River Community Access Media IncColchester, VT$45,000112023
Rutland Region Community TelevisionRutland, VT$45,000112023
Springfield Area Public Access TelevisionSpringfield, VT$45,000112023
The Media FactoryBurlington, VT$45,000112023
Falls Area Community Television IncBellows Falls, VT$35,000112023
Green Mountain Access TvHyde Park, VT$35,000112023
Hardwick Community Television IncHardwick, VT$35,000112023
Mad River Valley Television IncWaitsfield, VT$35,000112023
Middlebury Community TvMiddlebury, VT$35,000112023
Northeast Addison Television IncorporatedBristol, VT$35,000112023
Woodstock Community TvWoodstock, VT$35,000112023
Windsor Area Communtiy TelevisionWindsor, VT$35,000112023

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 23 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Arts & Culture
20 orgs

Where its money goes

Colchester, VT
$135K
Brattleboro, VT
$45K
Bennington, VT
$45K
White River Junction, VT
$45K
Barre, VT
$45K
Manchestr Ctr, VT
$45K
St Johnsbury, VT
$45K
Newport, VT
$45K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Vermont Council on the Arts Inc2 shared recipientsThe Vermont Community Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $45,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Vermont.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Chittenden Community Television's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 23 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 294 No Winooski Avenue 210/211, Burlington, VT, 05401.

EIN 22-2582888 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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