Michigan · Nonprofit
CINQ-MARS MEDIA
CINQ-MARS MEDIA (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,743 to it, the largest being THE FRIED FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Cinq-Mars Media does
Mission
The Corporation is specifically organized to develop technology to support scientific research related to human safety and education, and to make such technology and research available on a charitable basis, and to conduct all activities incidental or necessary to accomplish the foregoing purposes or otherwise permitted by IRC 501(c)(3).
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Crossabout is an indie puzzle game where players build their own crossword puzzles in reverse using clues with multiple answers. It exercises vocabulary, memory, and spatial skills. Given a set of crossword clues with multiple correct answers, players craft different layouts and combinations of words that satisfy the puzzle. Earn stars by solving levels and by finding combinations with the most or fewest squares filled. A new, free puzzle is featured daily, while creatively-themed packs and monthly archives are unlocked using stars you earn along the way. Some puzzles involve higher challenges such as blocked or prefilled squares. Arrange answers around the blocks in a traditional crossword format. Correlate words including the prefilled letters. Move or rotate your answers, and spend stars to get hints. Crossabout packs vary from simple to sudoku-style to difficult single solutions. Crossabout was released on steam and mobile in november 2024.
$43,152 spentTrade bots, created to expand financial literacy and apply math concepts, is an innovative educational simulation game featuring technical analysis and algorithmic trading. Trade an unknown stock at a random time in the past, buying and selling the asset using only technical analysis concepts gained along the way. Learn fundamentals of how to trade based solely on patterns and technical indicators, gradually unlocking upgrades which can expedite and automate your trading. Earn more with learn & earn content and quizzes. Over the course of the campaign, design intricate trading bots using a custom-built visual node editor. The engine is highly flexible and accommodates practically any trading strategy imaginable while requiring no programming background. Trade bots is Cinq-Mars Media's highest-earning game on steam.
$20,020 spentEquate 8 is an interactive learning tool disguised as a casual app. We designed this dynamic learning experience to reshape how students engage with arithmetic and algebra. The idea originated from a playful experiment with magic squares. We wondered: could we arrange two- digit numbers in a 9x9 grid where all eight lines share arithmetic relationships? In exploring this puzzle, we stumbled upon something deeper. Equate 8 taps into the core of what makes games engaging: clear objectives, instant feedback, and a "no-lose" design that removes humiliation from experimentation. The result is a challenge that is fun for casual gamers as well as students. Equate 8 was released on steam and mobile in the summer of 2025.
$7,928 spentThe devil's calculator spreads math appreciation and excitement in the form of an addicting and innovative puzzle game. Advanced graphing mechanics, countless features and simple, yet innovative level design give considerable depth to the game play. The player doesn't have to be a math prodigy; the game engages logical thinking skills. Featuring an in-depth level creation system for players to program their own brain-teasers for the community, challenges are also provided by well-known mathematicians, professors and celebrities within the field. The devil's calculator is completely free to educators and students, and 20+ levels are free to play for all. This award-winning game is popular with the indie gaming community while proving a robust educational tool--we receive contacts from teachers and gamers internationally. Released in 2019, the devil's calculator is still one of Cinq-Mars Media's top sellers.
$1,219 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2018 to 2019, from $19k to $46k (+136%).
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.
98% of CINQ-MARS MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CINQ-MARS MEDIA’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
CINQ-MARS MEDIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
CINQ-MARS MEDIA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CINQ-MARS MEDIA is better cushioned than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CINQ-MARS MEDIA
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CINQ-MARS MEDIA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CINQ-MARS MEDIA?
- CINQ-MARS MEDIA (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,743 to it, the largest being THE FRIED FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINQ-MARS MEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,743 in grants to CINQ-MARS MEDIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINQ-MARS MEDIA?
- THE FRIED FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINQ-MARS MEDIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Cinq-Mars Media →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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