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Washington DC media organizations

There are 335 media production and publishing organizations in the greater Washington DC metro area, including the cities of Washington DC, Bethesda, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Alexandria, Arlington, and Reston within the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia. Combined, these Washington DC metro media organizations employ 5,208 people, earn more than $2 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $3 billion.
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Types of media organizations in Washington DC

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Media production and publishing organizations
 
335
 
$2,168,864,973
Nonprofit presses and publishers
 
126
 
$155,254,512
Film and video production organizations
 
70
 
$21,141,088
Television producing and broadcasting nonprofits
 
29
 
$717,145,311
Radio producing and broadcasting organizations
 
19
 
$546,831,915
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Job trends for Washington DC media organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
63
1-10
 
39
11-25
 
20
26-100
 
10
101 to 1,000
 
11
1,000+
 
1
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Sizes of media organizations in Washington DC

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
91
$250k to $1M
 
38
$1M to $5M
 
35
$5M to $25M
 
12
$25M to $100M
 
5
$100M+
 
5
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Directory of media organizations in Washington DC

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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

ASCD: Empowering educators, promoting child success through innovative training, publications, conferences. Passionate community of life-changing educators. Located in Arlington, VA.
Revenue
$6.6m
Assets
$61.9m
Employees
160
EIN
52-6078980
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Association of Public Television Stations (APTS)

APTS is a nonprofit membership organization ensuring a strong and financially sound public television system and helping member stations provide essential public services in education, public safety, and civic leadership to the American people.
Revenue
$4.4m
Assets
$4.6m
Employees
14
EIN
52-1170071
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is made up of more than 350 local public noncommercial TV stations serving all 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa.
Revenue
$544.0m
Assets
$641.2m
Employees
657
EIN
52-0899215
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Public Radio (NPR)

National Public Radio (NPR) is a mission-driven, multimedia news organization and radio program producer. It is a network with a strong base of Member Stations and supporters nationwide.
Revenue
$302.5m
Assets
$388.5m
Employees
1,508
EIN
52-0907625
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Better Angels Society

The Better Angels Society supports documentary films by Ken Burns and is dedicated to continuing his legacy. Their mission is to ensure these historically significant films are completed, broadcast, promoted, and shared.
Revenue
$11.0m
Assets
$27.6m
Employees
7
EIN
45-4587107
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Global Press Institute

Global Press Institute invests in reporters and editors for ethical journalism, offering a duty of care program for journalists' security.
Revenue
$6.6m
Assets
$6.7m
Employees
16
EIN
20-4421980
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Radio Research Consortium

To advance the understanding & utilization of audience Research by non-commercial Radio stations; to train & educate station personnel on the evaluation, interpretation, & utilization of Radio Research data; and to act as counselors, consultants, and eval....
Revenue
$7.5m
Assets
$6.9m
Employees
6
EIN
52-1218752
IRS type
501(c)(6)

American Studies Center

American Studies Center conducts nonpartisan research on the interplay between government policies and the private sector in the US.
Revenue
$7.2m
Assets
$6.0m
Employees
26
EIN
51-0232804
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Cable Satellite Corporation (C-SPAN)

C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is a private, non-profit public service of the cable television industry. C-SPAN earns its operating revenues through license fees paid by cable systems that offer the network to their customers.
Revenue
$49.4m
Assets
$251.3m
Employees
208
EIN
84-0751854
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Tax Analysts

Tax Analysts is a leading provider of tax news and analysis for the global community. They have the industry's largest tax-dedicated correspondent staff, with more than 250 domestic and international correspondents.
Revenue
$32.8m
Assets
$77.5m
Employees
197
EIN
23-7073182
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

CPB funds and supports non-commercial television, radio, and online programming to ensure universal access to high-quality educational services.
Revenue
$582.0m
Assets
$330.5m
Employees
105
EIN
13-2607374
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Radio Free Europeradio Liberty (RFE/RL)

To promote democratic values and institutions by reporting the news in countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established.
Revenue
$170.9m
Assets
$226.2m
Employees
212
EIN
52-1068522
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Journalism Project

The American Journalism Project, Inc. is a first-of-its-kind venture philanthropy dedicated to building and supporting local news across the country.
Revenue
$42.4m
Assets
$55.0m
Employees
25
EIN
83-1772542
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Captioning Institute (NCI)

The National Captioning Institute (NCI) is dedicated to the advancement of media access for the deaf, hard of hearing and blind.
Revenue
$14.8m
Assets
$8.5m
Employees
195
EIN
52-1144663
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Radio Free Asia (RFA)

Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable.
Revenue
$64.6m
Assets
$60.0m
Employees
336
EIN
52-1968145
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Middle East Broadcasting Networks

Middle East Broadcasting Networks expands and diversifies media perspectives in the Middle East and North Africa through Alhurra and Radio Sawa.
Revenue
$127.3m
Assets
$45.1m
Employees
529
EIN
42-1591205
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own.
Revenue
$12.1m
Assets
$31.8m
Employees
47
EIN
27-0458242
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Source for Learning

The Source for Learning provides technology-based content and services, empowering teachers, parents and caregivers to enhance children's learning.
Revenue
$8.0m
Assets
$69.4m
Employees
16
EIN
52-1279689
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The American Independent Foundation

The American Independent Institute is a Washington-based journalism fund that supports the publication of investigative news projects. The American Independent Institute seeks stories with strong potential for impact.
Revenue
$26.1m
Assets
$4.8m
Employees
36
EIN
33-1137541
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Editorial Projects in Education

Epe raises awareness of critical K-12 education issues through targeted products and media as an independent, nonprofit publisher.
Revenue
$22.6m
Assets
$43.4m
Employees
114
EIN
53-0246895
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "A30: Media, Communications Organizations" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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