National Museum of Broadcasting
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251529036
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4122414508
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,088
- Expenses
- $24,427
- Assets
- $155,369
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM HILLGROVE (President)
- Susie Barbour (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD HARRIS (Treasurer)
- WILLIAM HILLGROVE (President)
- Susie Barbour (Vice President)
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
Our mission is to tell the amazing story of how the second mass media revolution got started in Pittsburgh in 1920 with AM radio and how the media evolved from there into many ever-more-powerful forms over the years. In so doing, we will celebrate the technologists and business visionaries who make it happen, evoke awe for the wondrous technology, inspire and educate young people and showcase Pittsburgh as a high-tech center past, present and future.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our mission is to tell the amazing story of how the second mass media revolution got started in Pittsburgh in 1920 with AM radio and how the media evolved from there into many ever-more-powerful forms over the years. In so doing, we will celebrate the technologists and business visionaries who make it happen, evoke awe for the wondrous technology, inspire and educate young people and showcase Pittsburgh as a high-tech center past, present and future. Over the past 25 years, we have been investigating and collecting artifacts from the history of broadcasting with the idea of starting a museum about radio. As OUR website attests, our ambition has grown over the years and we now want to show how broadcasting was only the opening act for the much larger story of mass electronic media.OUR GOALS INCLUDE: Teach the history and technology of electronic mass mediaRekindle a sense of wonder in media technologyInstill an appreciation for the media businessRecognize the people who made it all happenInspire the next generation of high-tech leaders in all fieldsProvide facilities for training in media arts and technologyCelebrate Pittsburgh as a high-tech hub, past, present and future
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14%; rating input score 14
- 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: 86%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.36; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 14% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 14/100.