Motion Picture Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131068220
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8189956600
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,171,053
- Expenses
- $84,024,809
- Assets
- $66,916,269
- Liabilities
- $38,718,851
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHARLES RIVKIN (CHAIRMAN & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHARLES RIVKIN (CHAIRMAN & CEO): $4,562,480 total reported compensation
- GAIL MACKINNON (SEVP, GLOBL POLICY & GOVT AFF): $1,313,086 total reported compensation
- KARYN TEMPLE (SEVP & GLOBAL GENERAL COUNSEL): $1,305,993 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The motion picture association (mpa, inc.) serves as the voice and advocate of the american motion picture, home video and television industries. Mpa, inc. Undertakes various activities in the furtherance of its mission, including, among other things, monitoring federal and state legislation affecting the motion picture industry, preserving and protecting the rights of copyright owners, directing a content protection program to protect u.s. Films throughout the world and administering a voluntary film rating system.
What it reported doing in 2024
Administered a voluntary film rating service to filmmakers which helps parents choose appropriate films for their children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.3%; rating input score 97; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $4.6M · 36 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 72 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 61 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.