Portland Center for the Media Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454058053
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5037106194
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$6,534
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN LEHMANN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • BRIAN LEHMANN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • BRIAN HARRIS (CREATIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KIMBERLY LEHMANN (DIRECTOR)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Portland center for the media arts is an educational and cultural arts organization dedicated to nurturing and expanding an artistic community committed to the innovation and creative application of the media arts for the public good that is implemented through a teaching studio concept. Nonprofits and students learn how to create and produce media formats doing real projects for public benefit.

What it reported doing in 2019

Media program education for nonprofits and training and education opportunities for students

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
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2019
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.