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BROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

EIN 52-6057288 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2025
$1,250,236
Expenses 2025
$962,319

Program services were 54.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
1 M STREET SE

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

BEA IS THE PREMIER INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC MEDIA ORGANIZATION, DRIVING INSIGHTS, EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA PRODUCTION, AND CAREER ADVANCEMENT FOR EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, AND PROFESSIONALS. THE ASSOCIATION'S PUBLICATIONS, ANNUAL CONVENTION, WEB-BASED PROGRAMS, AND REGIONAL DISTRICT ACTIVITIES PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR JURIED PRODUCTION COMPETITION AND PRESENTATION OF CURRENT SCHOLARLY RESEARCH RELATED TO ASPECTS OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA. BEA SERVES AS A FORUM FOR EXPOSITION, ANALYSIS, AND DEBATE OF ISSUES OF SOCIAL IMPORTANCE TO DEVELOP MEMBERS' AWARENESS AND SENSITIVITY TO THESE ISSUES AND TO THEIR RAMIFICATIONS, WHICH WILL HELP MEMBERS DEVELOP AS MORE THOUGHTFUL PRACTITIONERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BEA IS THE PREMIER INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC MEDIA ORGANIZATION, DRIVING INSIGHTS, EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA PRODUCTION, AND CAREER ADVANCEMENT FOR EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, AND PROFESSIONALS.

  • ANNUAL MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS PROMOTE BROADCASTING AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AMONG ACADEMICIANS, RESEARCHERS, AND OTHER ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROFESSIONALS.

    Expenses $403,149 · Revenue $429,269

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $62,704 · Grants $44,000

  • PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA, JOURNAL OF RADIO & AUDIO MEDIA, AND JOURNAL OF MEDIA EDUCATION - SCHOLARLY JOURNALS EMPHASIZING NEW DEVELOPMENTS, TRENDS RESEARCH RELATED TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA.

    Expenses $38,982 · Revenue $61,526

  • DIVISION ACTIVITIES: SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS WITHIN BEA THAT RELATE TO VARIOUS INITIATIVES IMPORTANT TO BEA'S MEMBERSHIP BASE.

    Expenses $16,746 · Revenue $17,725

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Jennifer Meadows

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thom Baggerman

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathleen Ryan

    SECRETARY/TREASURER & DISTRICT REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Glenda Balas

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christine Merritt

    VICE PRESIDENT (THRU APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kim Fox

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT (THRU APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nick Artman

    DISTRICT REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sara Magee

    DISTRICT REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adam Kuban

    DISTRICT REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Victor Evans

    DISTRICT REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Shelton

    DISTRICT REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Deborah Wilson David

    DISTRICT REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leah Kamon

    INDUSTRY REP.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Antonio Mora

    DISTRICT REP. (FROM APRIL)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Heather Birks

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $149,746
    From this org
    $130,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,996
    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
    $1,250,236
    Expenses
    $962,319
    Contributions
    $353,870
    Grants paid
    $44,000
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $992,941
    Expenses
    $938,283
    Contributions
    $164,406
    Grants paid
    $51,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $932,280
    Expenses
    $858,658
    Contributions
    $261,091
    Grants paid
    $37,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $730,046
    Expenses
    $775,049
    Contributions
    $65,125
    Grants paid
    $40,400

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
    $844,869
    Expenses
    $533,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,231,081
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,888,339
    Expenses
    $545,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,802,315
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $854,878
    Expenses
    $826,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,420,262
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $915,191
    Expenses
    $813,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,152,934

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.