Cultural and Educational Media
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942876381
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Valley Ford, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,840
- Expenses
- $3,379
- Assets
- $3,961
- Liabilities
- $31,080
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen Olsson (President)
People named in this filing
- Stephen Olsson (President)
- Veronica Fabrella (CFO)
- Dr Larry Tragareh (Trustee)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This corporation is organized are to advance education and provide charitable assistance to the general public by the production, instruction in production, dissemination and discussion of educational mass media products in the public interest including, but not limited to, those designed to help eliminate prejudice and discrimination.
What it reported doing in 2024
CEM continued with its global distribution of its films and TV series through 2024 which is largely handled through digital distribution by Vimeo. Also, throughout 2024, CEM also explored potential documentary projects for viability and relevance. We developed a pilot project called Jerusalem, featuring Israeli journalist David Michaelis and Palestinian journalist Jamal Dajani. The project became impossible after the events of October 7th, 2023. We are still attempting to design a new program with the focus of the historic city of Jerusalem, hopefully to realize sometime in the near future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.1%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.85; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.