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JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER FOREDUCATIONAL MEDIA AND RESEARCH INC

EIN 20-8783702 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2023
$791,763
Expenses 2023
$1,979,234

Program services were 72.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
1900 BROADWAY

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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • STEPHEN YOUNGWOOD

    DIRECTOR (THRU 02/2024)

    Total calculated
    $1,066,294
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,025,307
    Other
    $40,987
    Hours/week
    1 + 62.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $778,378 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $244,635 related
    Other
    $0 + $2,294 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $7,987 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $1,066,294 related

  • SHERRIE ROLLINS WESTIN

    CEO/PRESIDENT OF SESAME WORKSHOP

    Total calculated
    $894,684
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $858,697
    Other
    $35,987
    Hours/week
    1 + 64 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $647,804 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $202,457 related
    Other
    $0 + $8,436 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $2,987 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $894,684 related

  • MICHAEL LEVINE

    DIRECTOR (THRU 11/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVID BYER

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 11/2/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JOAN GANZ COONEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.5 related

  • ESTEBAN SOSNIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • HINA TALIB

    DIRECTOR (AS OF 11/2/2023)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ELLEN WARTELLA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MICHAEL PRESTON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JGC CENTER

    Total calculated
    $439,065
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $340,805
    Other
    $98,260
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $271,804 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $68,186 related
    Other
    $0 + $815 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $28,624 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $69,636 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $439,065 related

  • BRETT ROBINSON

    TREASURER/CFO OF SESAME WORKSHOP

    Total calculated
    $517,505
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $449,850
    Other
    $67,655
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 62.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $379,306 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $69,238 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,306 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $3,750 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $63,905 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $517,505 related

  • VALERIE MITCHELL-JOHNSTON

    SECRETARY (AS OF 7/2023)

    Total calculated
    $496,499
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $393,581
    Other
    $102,918
    Hours/week
    1 + 62 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $317,783 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $74,340 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,458 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $69,918 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $496,499 related

  • JOSEPH SALVO

    FORMER DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $348,304
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $312,288
    Other
    $36,016
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $206,170 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $99,840 related
    Other
    $0 + $6,278 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $20,800 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $15,216 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $348,304 related

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $791,763
    Expenses
    $1,979,234
    Contributions
    $266,578
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,504,764
    Expenses
    $2,318,677
    Contributions
    $309,278
    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.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.