Cultural Media Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942982469
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Alachua, FL, USA
Phone
8314232323
Rating confidence
Limited
Affiliation
Hinduism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$-2,044
Expenses
$803
Assets
$3,822
Liabilities
$1,080

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Josh Wagner (President/Director/Exec Dir)

People named in this filing

  • Josh Wagner (President/Director/Exec Dir)
  • Martin Lewis (Treasurer, Secretary, Director)

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

Promote Vedic spirituality. Provide fiscal sponsorship services.

What it reported doing in 2025

Distributed $5,695 worth of texts to promote Vedic spirituality.Provided fiscal sponsorship services to Community MediaFoundation (a community radio station in Northern Calif.).

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: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 55.9%; rating input score 56

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -139.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.76; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -29.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -24.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $449 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.