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MASSACHUSSETTS MEDIA FUND INC

EIN 83-4616910 SOMERVILLE, MA

Largest nonprofits in Massachusetts

Revenue 2024
$306,429
Expenses 2024
$180,777

Program services were 73.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
2000
Street
519 SOMERVILLE AVE 206

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND DBA THE BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION OF INDEPENDENT NEWS. BINJ ACHIEVES ITS MISSION BY: PROVIDING ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT TO COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS; RUNNING REPORTING COLLABORATIONS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES; TRAINING PROMISING JOURNALISTS; AND PRODUCING BOLD INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION OF INDEPENDENT NEWS.

  • PROVIDING ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT TO COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS; RUNNING REPORTING COLLABORATIONS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES; TRAINING PROMISING JOURNALISTS; AND PRODUCING BOLD INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM.

    Expenses $132,499 · Revenue $306,429

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Felicia Sullivan

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Pramas

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $41,600
    From this org
    $41,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zakiya Alake

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Faraone

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $41,600
    From this org
    $41,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • G Valentino Ball

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Loftus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $42,800
    From this org
    $42,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Saul Tannenbaum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristine Palmero

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Garrett Quinn

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $306,429
    Expenses
    $180,777
    Contributions
    $306,429
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $133,669
    Expenses
    $190,019
    Contributions
    $133,669
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $148,290
    Expenses
    $94,742
    Contributions
    $148,290
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $150,576
    Expenses
    $226,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,004

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $291,507
    Expenses
    $200,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,172

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $30,299
    Expenses
    $22,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,232

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.