Society for Cinema & Media Studies

Analysis

Society for Cinema & Media Studies is a registered charity in United States, based in Norman, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Society for Cinema & Media Studies reported income of $752k and spending of $760k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $863k to $752k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Society for Cinema & Media Studies sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Montana Family Institute Inc ($752k), Military Heritage Museum Inc ($752k) and Poway Center for the Performing Arts Foundation ($752k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.7% and program service revenue 76% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $332, net assets of $1.6m.