Epoch Media Midwest

Analysis

Epoch Media Midwest is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2004, 22 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Epoch Media Midwest reported income of $5.8m and spending of $5.4m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $741k to $5.8m (+677%), an average of +67% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 560%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Epoch Media Midwest sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Fund for Theological Education Inc ($5.8m), Tri-County Retirement & Nursing ($5.8m) and Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments ($5.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $861k.