Center for Media & Peace Initiative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562511276
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9178035540
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $22,704
- Assets
- $22,704
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Uchenna Ekwo (President)
- Edmund Janniger (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Carole Marchal (Director, Asia Pacific Region)
- Uchenna Ekwo (President)
- Tapio Varis (Chairman)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Center for Media and Peace Initiatives (CMPI) is dedicated to advancing global peace, dialogue, and development through interdisciplinary research, media engagement, and policy innovation. As an independent nonprofit in consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC, CMPI brings together journalists, diplomats, scholars, business leaders, and civil society actors across the United States and Africa to foster inclusive conversations, build cross-cultural understanding, and promote collaborative solutions to complex global challenges.
What it reported doing in 2025
13th Gershowitz Conference on Media and Governance held on Monday, November 17, 2025The explored the challenges journalists face worldwide, including legal intimidation and strategic lawsuits against public participation, with UNESCO presenting their efforts to combat these issues through various initiatives and educational programs. The discussion covered how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are impacting media freedom and democracy, particularly regarding revenue shifts from traditional media to big tech and the potential for AI to facilitate cross-border journalism. The conference concluded with conversations about defamation threats, legal challenges, and the broader implications for press freedom, emphasizing the need for collaboration among journalists, civil society organizations, and legal practitioners to address these issues. The major accomplishment was the connection the forum provided to journalists on funding opportunities at UNESCO targeted at safety of journalists in danger zones as well as to fight legal battles associated with SLAPP.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.