Create48 Media Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334797616
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Burien, WA, USA
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,880
- Expenses
- $82,135
- Assets
- $12,302
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kirk Nordenstrom (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Kirk Nordenstrom (Executive Director)
- Kris Flink (Director of Operations)
- Virginia Bogert (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CREATE48 Media Network is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to strengthen the creative economy and film media workforce. The organization builds nonprofit and community capacity by providing hands-on training mentorship and professional development opportunities for filmmakers and media workers. Through time-based filmmaking programs festivals workshops mentorship initiatives and educational media CREATE48 expands access to industry pathways reduces barriers for historically under-resourced creators and supports sustainable family-wage careers in the film and media sector while advancing cultural expression and community engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Filmapalooza 2025 Seattle & Harbor Island Creative ExpoCREATE48 Media Network hosted Filmapalooza 2025 in Seattle an international gathering and screening program that convened filmmakers for education professional development and cultural exchange. The event brought 500 international filmmakers to Seattle and provided structured opportunities for skills-building networking and collaboration including screenings and related convenings. CREATE48 also produced the Harbor Island Creative Expo which brought 600 Seattle-area creatives into direct contact with filmmakers from around the world. These activities advanced the organizations charitable and educational purposes by connecting local creatives to global professional networks expanding access to learning opportunities and strengthening the regional film and media ecosystem.Persons Benefited: 500 international filmmakers and 600 local creatives plus additional attendees at screenings and related events. This was produced in partnership with 48 Hour Film Project and King County Creative both of which covered the expenses of this event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.1%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 49.9%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 19%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.1% of revenue deployed · 49.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.