Virginia · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $240,562,984 to it, the largest being GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ($240,562,984). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $27
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $241M
- Net assets
- $-12201
What Center for Media and Public Affairs does
Mission
Research, media monitoring reports, and newsletters for decision makers, journalists and the general public
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Research, media monitoring reports, and newsletters for decision makers, journalists, and the general public
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $29k to $16k (−46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25M → $29M.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS is better cushioned than half of the 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS?
- CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $240,562,984 to it, the largest being GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ($240,562,984). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $240,562,984 in grants to CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS?
- GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $240,562,984 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing