Culture Reframed Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Culture reframed works to stop the emotional, behavioral, and sexual harms of pornography to children and youth. Through robust programs and resources, we help ensure kids develop healthy, respectful, and egalitarian views of sex and intimacy throughout their lives.we achieve our mission in five key ways:1.raise awareness and shift cultural narratives about the impact of porn on kids: since our founding, we have educated and influenced millions of people through media interviews and appearances, conferences, social media, keynote presentations, visitors to our website, podcasts, dr. Gail dines' book, and more.2. Build resilience and resistance in kids to hypersexualized media and porn culture: through our online courses, partnerships, workshops, presentations, and trainings, we reach tens of thousands of parents, professionals, and others each year, equipping them to help build kids' resilience and resistance to hypersexualized media and porn culture.3. Analyze and disseminate academic research that demonstrates the harms of pornography: our one-of-a-kind academic library is a regularly updated, searchable database of more than 500 articles. It is the world's largest compilation of contemporary, scholarly, and multidisciplinary work on the harms of pornography. We also have commissioned nine white papers, written by renowned academics.4. Foster institutional change to improve child safeguarding and protection: as a result of our training, subject matter expertise, consultation, and technical assistance, we have played a key role in changing systems and child protection policies in major institutions and organizations across government, multilateral bodies, and civil society.5. Advocate for policy change to better protect kids from the harms of pornography: we have contributed our expertise to collaborative policy advocacy efforts, both in the u.s. And in other countries, resulting in new and/or improved policies to protect young people from the harms of pornography.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
• Program expense ratio: 68.3%; rating input score 68
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

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: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings