Mediapolis Education Foundation

Analysis

Mediapolis Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Mediapolis, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Mediapolis Education Foundation reported income of $118k and spending of $57k, leaving 52% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $80k to $118k (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 46% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Mediapolis Education Foundation sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 40th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Naa Amerley Palm Education Foundation ($118k), Zonta Club of Newport Harbor Foundation ($118k) and Gainesville-Haymarket Rotary Foundation Inc ($118k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 49% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.6m.