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CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC
CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,296,418 to it, the largest being MJS FOUNDATION INC ($1,420,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Children and Screens-Institute of Digital Media and Child Development Inc does
Mission
Children and screens: institute of digital media and child development is dedicated to understanding and addressing compelling questions regarding media's impact on child development through interdisciplinary dialogue, public information, and rigorous, objective scientific research bridging the medical, neuroscientific, social science, education, and academic communities. Our organization advances interdisciplinary research, supports human capital in the field, informs and educates the public; and advocates for sound public policy for child health and wellness. Together with our supporters, we are helping children lead healthy lives in a digital world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Children and screens works towards developing human capital in the field through encouraging new and mid-career professionals to participate in the institute's multidisciplinary conferences, meetings, and events; providing scholarships for graduate students and fellows; and, through administering a robust internship/apprenticeship program. The institute's convenings foster collaboration of new professionals with more well-established researchers and as well as develop a holistic understanding of the cognitive, psychological and physical impacts of digital media and toddlers, children, and adolescents. The institute's internship program provides opportunities for budding students to explore this field of research, media or education, provide job experience and mentorship, and to help build future researchers. The institute also engages students and early career professionals in its retreat programs, such as the "digital media and the developing brain" neuroscience research retreat. Another project which involves several young investigators, the media impact screening toolkit, will eventually provide a roadmap for creating a comprehensive set of instruments to identify and assess…
$964,814 spent51% of program spendingChildren and screens' communication, outreach, and education programs provide evidence-based, actionable information about children's use of digital media and its impact on their health and development to parents, educators, health professionals, public health experts, andother professionals and stakeholders. These programs also provide guidance regarding parents and caregivers' use of digital media and its impact on child health. The institute accomplishes this facet of its mission through extensive information on its website, workshops,social media, public speaking engagements, media interviews, press releases, blogs and participation in conferences.
$563,675 spent30% of program spendingChildren and screens has a mission to advance and support objective, rigorous and scientific research into the impacts of digital media on child health and development through grant funding, interdisciplinary convenings and curation and publication of state-of-the-art research. Children and screens also works actively to incorporate questions into existing national longitudinal studies and assist in the development of new questions. In 2023, grant funds were awarded to an interdisciplinary team of experts to augment ongoing longitudinal studies and investigate the impacts of digital media use during the covid-19 pandemic. The institute also hosted "digital media and the developing brain," a research retreat convening world-renowned experts on the cognitive implications of digital media use throughout development. In addition, the institute funded the publication of a scoping review, a synthesis and systematic understanding of published screening tools used to assess problematic internet use toward the development of a media impact screening toolkit for clinicians and researchers.
$351,164 spentof which $15,178 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,879,653.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.6M to $7.8M (+70%).
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.
81% of CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kris Perry
Executive director/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.3M.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 91% · 2021 50% · 2022 28% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: 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 CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC?
- CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,296,418 to it, the largest being MJS FOUNDATION INC ($1,420,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,296,418 in grants to CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC?
- MJS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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