Illinois · Nonprofit
MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC
MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,449,720 to it, the largest being TYNDALE HOUSE MINISTRIES ($1,756,896). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $604k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $304k
What Media Associates International Inc does
Mission
A religious educational agency providing consultative and technical assistance to build communication, competence in christian communication, management and research skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Publishing, training and consulting: mai provides training and encouragement for christian publishing staff and writers worldwide. Last year we reached over 1900 individuals in 50+ countries through webinars, writing contests and online courses.
$357,817 spent$126,533 earned by the program51% of program spendingMonitoring and coordinating ongoing projects: mai presidents john maust and heather pubols and director of publisher development ramon rocha developed, managed, monitored and followed up the training projects during the fiscal year-working in close consultation with mai's regional trustees groups and the national organizations that invited our training assistance. For every training,evaluations are completed by the trainers, host organization and participants to determine the effectiveness and follow-up of the trainings.
$157,528 spent23% of program spendingFiscal sponsorship: the organization has agreements with several foreign entities to serve as their fiscal sponsor. These agreements allow mai to receive charitable contributions and grants from a u.s. Entity and then forward to the entities for which they are a fiscal sponsor. The agreements allow for a service charge to be collected for the expenses incurred in the transfers.
$135,981 spentof which $135,981 as grants$5,666 earned by the program19% of program spendingProgram information, handbook and newsletter: mai serves the global christian publishing community by sharing training resources and publishing news through our website (www.maiglobal.org), words for the world newsletter and digital and print training handbooks. The littworldonline blog fosters continued training and networking of past littworld and other training participants. We also offer free training webinars on publishing topics.
$46,666 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $697,992.
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 2023 to 2024, from $187k to $514k (+174%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Anna Piro
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $129k → $369k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL 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
MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 48% · 2019 57% · 2020 53% · 2021 82% · 2022 67% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
83% of MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL 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 MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC?
- MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,449,720 to it, the largest being TYNDALE HOUSE MINISTRIES ($1,756,896). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,449,720 in grants to MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC?
- TYNDALE HOUSE MINISTRIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,756,896 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDIA ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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