Families Managing Media Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475470710
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Matthews, NC, USA
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,919
Expenses
$74,129
Assets
$31,415
Liabilities
$3,545

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Melanie Hempe (President)

People named in this filing

  • Bob Stouffer (Board Chairman)
  • Josh Carlton (Board Member)
  • Barbara Ardizzone (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

Families Managing Media aka ScreenStrong empowers parents to confidently develop a balanced digital media lifestyle. Focusing on the connection between brain development and media use we provide solutions to reclaim kids and reconnect families in todays digital world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Dedicated to empowering families to counter the negative impacts of the digital world ScreenStrong Ambassadors and Community Leaders actively promote the ScreenStrong message locally and online. These individuals an extension of the ScreenStrong team undergo specialized training to conduct workshops establish support groups and offer continuous assistance in their areas. This expands ScreenStrongs mission nationally and globally. In 2025 32 new Ambassadors and 82 Community Leaders joined broadening its global presence to countries like Indonesia the Cayman Islands and Latvia.

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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.7%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85

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: 13.7%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.7% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.