Mid-atlantic Regional Moving Image Archi

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812799905
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Phone
2407726862
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$539,121
Expenses
$209,012
Assets
$523,643
Liabilities
$5,106

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SIOBHAN CERNUGELJ HAGAN (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SIOBHAN CERNUGELJ HAGAN (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT): $1,538 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To preserve and provide access to the movies and sounds that document the arts, history, and culture of the u.s. Mid-atlantic region.

What it reported doing in 2025

Access and discovery for all: making the digital objects of our collections available for free to all to find, view, listen, and interact with the content. This includes digital objects online in platforms such as the internet archive and aviary and creating transcripts and captions for those, as well as giving access to non-av items in person (smpte journals, photos, paper docs, reference collection). To help researchers identify relevant archival collections in order to assist in finding and retrieving what they are searching for. Includes creating transcripts, cataloging and describing (internet archive, archives space, aviary), reference help through emails or phone calls, and inventorying and arranging the physical collections at bca to be pulled easily and accurately.

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 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 66
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 29%; rating input score 29
  • Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $104,361 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 100; 100th 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 61.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.51; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 29% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $156K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.