Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC
MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,500 to it, the largest being UMBERTO ROMANO AND CLORINDA ROMANO FOUNDATION INC ($267,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $413k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $378k
- Net assets
- $-11827
What Media Voices for Children Inc does
Mission
To raise public awareness about the impact of poverty and globalization on the world's children by producing and distributing videos, interactive media and documentary films. We are committed to using the internet and the power of social networking and distributed media to build a network of activists and activities, reaching mainstream media, the educational community and the general public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provided support for children in kenyan school house projects, including school lunch programs, supplies to dispensaries and ambulances, school fees, food delivieries to children's families, and academic supplies.
$211,177 spentof which $210,343 as grants51% of program spendingThe organization works towards spreading education, advocacy, and awareness efforts centered on child welfare and abuse. It has previously partnered with the united states department of labor and the university of connecticut's human rights institute to create a school curriculum for grades 8-12 titled "childhood unbound." the organization travels between school districts and legislative bodies teaching seminars and courses on the causes of and solutions to child labor and trafficking. The organization continued to update it's curriculum and materials during the year.
$36,178 spent9% of program spendingThe organization continued distributing it's previously produced film "butterfly butterfly- and is in the process of producing a film project for digital distribution titled "vipi tatoto"(translated: how are the children in swahili).
$163,822 spent40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,177.
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 $98k to $8k (−92%).
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.
100% of MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $110k.
1 of 7 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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN 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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 64% · 2022 78% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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
MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC has grown faster than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$16k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN 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 VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC?
- MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,500 to it, the largest being UMBERTO ROMANO AND CLORINDA ROMANO FOUNDATION INC ($267,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $377,500 in grants to MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC?
- UMBERTO ROMANO AND CLORINDA ROMANO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $267,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDIA VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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