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MEDIA INSTITUTE

EIN 52-1061431 MCLEAN, VA

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Revenue 2025
$432,040
Expenses 2025
$421,824

Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
8300 GREENSBORO DR SUITE L1-612

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 · 2025

Mission

To foster freedom of speech, a competitive media and communications industry, and excellence in journalism.

  • Free Speech America - An Institute event held every fall that presents two awards to deserving individuals. The American Horizon Award recognizes leadership in promoting the vitality and independence of American media and communications. The Freedom of Speech Award recognizes and indivudal who has made important contributions to the advancement and protection of free speech. Additionally, the Institute facilitates Free Speech Week, a yearly event to raise public awareness of the importance of free speech in our democracy- and to celebrate that freedom. As freedom of speech is a right all Americans share, this non-partisan, non-ideological event is intended to be a unifying celebration.

    Expenses $178,069 · Revenue $56,775

  • Communications Forum - A luncheon program held in Washington, D.C. eight times per year. The Forum gives newsmakers from the government and communications industry an opportunity to address a select audience of media and corporate executives and journalists.

    Expenses $166,467 · Revenue $46,450

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Grimaldi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jessica Marventano

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Will Johnson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ashley Messenger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adonis Hoffman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Moeser

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Wiley Esq

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • John I Taylor

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Keith R Murphy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Kaplar

    President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $58,282
    From this org
    $49,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,782
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $432,040
    Expenses
    $421,824
    Contributions
    $328,815
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $419,675
    Expenses
    $477,433
    Contributions
    $335,785
    Grants paid
    $1,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $427,475
    Expenses
    $484,231
    Contributions
    $346,925
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $375,741
    Expenses
    $457,971
    Contributions
    $345,446
    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
    $546,197
    Expenses
    $475,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $160,352

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $484,662
    Expenses
    $475,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,900

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $495,806
    Expenses
    $550,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,813

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $609,980
    Expenses
    $517,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,438

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $704,897
    Expenses
    $644,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,838

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $716,809
    Expenses
    $771,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,951

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $716,500
    Expenses
    $836,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $171,129

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $837,000
    Expenses
    $847,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $286,415

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $823,852
    Expenses
    $815,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,944

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $805,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,424

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.