Media-rites
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930852957
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,803
- Expenses
- $40,946
- Assets
- $90,936
- Liabilities
- $70
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARA CASWELL KOLBET (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SARA CASWELL KOLBET (PRESIDENT)
- LARRY TODA (SECRETARY)
- DMAE ROBERTS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTORBOARD 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
Prod org telling stories of diverse cult
What it reported doing in 2025
Giving a voice to the unheard through the arts, education, and media projects. Adapted our original touring theatre show into films due to covid 19
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.5%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 53.2%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.22; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.9% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.5% of revenue deployed · 53.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.