Center for Educational Media

Analysis

Center for Educational Media is a registered charity in United States, based in Bridgeton, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2022, 4 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 (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, Center for Educational Media reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.3m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.2m (+5.8%), an average of +1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Center for Educational Media sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 79th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Albany Institute of History and Art ($1.2m), Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study Inc ($1.2m) and Equalize Health ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $349k against liabilities of $220, net assets of $349k.