Media Working Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311241613
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5034904690
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,467
- Expenses
- $82,437
- Assets
- $11,863
- Liabilities
- $36,800
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jean Donohue (President)
- Fred Johnson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jean Donohue (President)
- Fred Johnson (Vice President)
- Tim Kraus (Treasurer)
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
Media Working Group, Inc (MWG) provides capacity and infra-structure for artists, educators, writers and researchers to conduct their work in a non-commercial environment. It supports projects that intervene in mass media culture and help media artists realize the potential for participating in emerging local and global cultures. MWG works to inform us and make us aware of the importance of independent media and diverse media art forms which further self-representation, diversity and community development. MWG promotes media literacy education as a means of creating an informed citizenry and to strengthen our democratic society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Media Working Group (MWG)encourages the public's understanding and appreciation of the artistic and cultural impact of the multi-media arts by:1. Presenting Media Literacy, Networked Media Production Training and education programs;2. Participating in exhibitions and workshops;3. Supporting the creation and distribution of video, film and networked media by artists;4. Collaborating and co-producing media art with non-profit community institutions.MWG supports non-commercial film makers, writers, multi-media producers, researchers and educators. Support includes access to high definition video equipment packages, office space and a web site with a collectively managed store and production catalogue. MWG also provides web hosting services for individual project sites and blogs. MWG provides support, education and training to artists for the creation and maintenance of their own web sites. Other services include project management, fund development, accounting, IRS reporting, curriculum development, promotion, event management, public engagement development and implementation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -27.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.1; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.