Making Peace Visible Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992719414
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Somerville, MA, USA
Phone
6173310002
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Peace and Security

Reported finances

Revenue
$86,301
Expenses
$81,316
Assets
$13,302
Liabilities
$8,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • PETER AGOOS (DIRECTOR)
  • ELIZABETH MCCLINTOCK (DIRECTOR)
  • TAMAR MILLER (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Making peace visible (mpv) connects peacebuilders with journalists, digital content creators, and technologists to amplify peace effortsmaking them more visible, better understood, and more supported. At a time of deep division and global instability, mpv is fostering a practical, cross-sector coalition that recognizes journalists and digital creators as vital connectorsshaping narratives, building power, and reframing peace as a viable solution to conflict. By making peace visible, tangible and relevant to people's everyday lives, mpv promotes a civic culture that prioritizes dialogue over division and recognizes peace as fundamental to democracy.

What it reported doing in 2024

Building a multi-stakeholder network: our breakthrough cross-sector events are designed to spark bold collaborationbringing together diverse disciplines to tackle the systemic drivers of conflict and create transformative, media-driven solutions for peace. In 2026, the international summit on peace, conflict and the media in Washington, d.c. Will create a platform for key stakeholders in conflict reporting journalists, editors, and media scholars to engage with peacebuilders, neuroscientists, and technologists to examine the news media's dual role in helping and hindering peace efforts. The summit will feature dynamic presentations, experiential workshops, and the latest research, fostering dialogue about innovative strategies for reimagining media coverage of peace and conflict. This event follows the success of our inaugural symposium at the New York times center in 2018, a partnership with the pulitzer center on crisis reporting that attracted over 400 peacebuilders, journalists, and other media professionals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.