2021-05-12T09:57:35-05:00 2020-06-30 GRANT THORNTON LLP 757 THIRD AVENUE 3RD FLOOR NEW YORK NY 100172013 990 2019-07-01 208783702 The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc % DARYL MINTZ/SESAME WORKSHOP JOAN 2125953456 1900 Broadway New York NY 10023 DARYL MINTZ treasurer 3474737400 2021-05-12 true SCOTT THOMPSETT P00741490 2125990100 2019 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z MICHAEL Preston 1900 Broadway New York NY 10023 408435 false X www.joanganzcooneycenter.org X 2007 DE THE CENTER'S MISSION IS TO CATALYZE AND SUPPORT RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES TO ADVANCE CHILDREN'S LEARNING. 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 173572 211082 -66200 0 1018 211082 108390 185051 23553 0 0 674590 1111382 0 0 138569 225374 408608 1085015 1543543 -873933 -1435153 23734911 23865425 3708296 3967841 20026615 19897584 X THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER IS AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND INNOVATION LAB THAT CATALYZES AND SUPPORTS RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES TO ADVANCE CHILDREN'S LEARNING. THE FOCUS OF THE COONEY CENTER IS ON LITERACY DEVELOPMENT FOR DIVERSE LEARNERS. PROGRAMS ADDRESS VITAL FOUNDATIONAL CAPABILITIES, SUCH AS READING, WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THOSE STUDENTS WHO RISK EDUCATIONAL FAILURE IF THEY DO NOT MASTER BASIC COMPETENCIES BY GRADE 4. THE COONEY CENTER IS ALSO FOCUSING NATIONAL ATTENTION ON EVOLVING "NEW LITERACIES" THAT CHILDREN NEED TO COMPETE AND COOPERATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. MAJOR INITIATIVES FOCUS ON INTER-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, MEDIA LITERACY, AND ADVANCING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH (STEM) LEARNING -- ALL OF WHICH HAVE BECOME CRITICAL IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD. false false 1117020 23553 173572 Future of Childhood The arrival of the global pandemic in early 2020 forced the cancellation of the Future of Childhood Summit, which was scheduled for early March at Googles offices in San Francisco and focused on promoting positive visions of childhood in this tech-saturated age. The event would have assembled leaders from industry, research, education, and advocacy to create a unified vision of the future of childhood, in which all children grow up in a world where their interactions with media and technology enrich their learning, wellbeing, and safety. In lieu of the summit, the Cooney Center team invited attendees to write for a blog series entitled "Voices on the Future of Childhood," where they shared "aspirational but achievable" visions of the future of childhood and to offer the field some immediate directives to help us get there. Each installment features experts responses to a specific question about the immediate or longer-term future of childhood as it relates to COVID-19. Themes included: one thing that must be done now; what will change as a result of the pandemic; the future of play; the future of digital play; back to school; and diversity, belonging, and racial justice. New potential activities for the Future of Childhood group include a focus on digital play and wellbeing, including guidance for innovators to support better design for children. Next Gen Public Media Young people including tweens and teens represent a "missing audience" for public media, which has struggled to engage them through traditional broadcast programming. To address this gap, the Cooney Center partnered with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to spur innovation in the public media sector based on youth-focused research and youth-centered design practices. Entitled "By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences," this initiative will conduct and translate research on youth media practices, including the creation of media by, with, and for tweens and teens, while exploring opportunities for the public media sector to develop innovative and unique strategies to better engage young audiences. In the first year of the initiative, the Cooney Center began developing a literature review as well as original qualitative research to identify challenges, gaps, and opportunities for public media. The team also began a design process with 20 public media stations to lay the groundwork for new youth-facing program experiments, collaboration, and shared learning. If successful, the initiative will inform future federal support for youth-focused public media projects and provide the Center with opportunities for related projects including media literacy and youth voice. Connecting to Sesame Workshops Legacy The Cooney Center participated in the celebration of Sesame Workshop's 50th anniversary by reissuing "The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education," Joan Ganz Cooney's seminal research report that became the blueprint for Sesame Street and Childrens Television Workshop, and today drives the Centers efforts to direct research and innovation for the benefit of children everywhere. The reissued report contains the original, unedited text from 1966, as well as new forewords and archival photos. As a companion report, the center published "Revisiting the Potential Uses of Media for Children's Education" by journalist Chris Berdik, featuring interviews with more than 20 experts from a range of fields including developmental psychologists, educators, media historians, app developers, as well as education nonprofit leaders and funders, to understand some of the lessons that can be learned from the successes and failures of childrens educational media over the past 50 years. Together, they explore what we must do to make the most of new technologies and the changing role of families and teachers, and grapple with questions about media, learning, and educational equity. Designing for Kids In FY20, the Cooney Center began to investigate ways to expand impact on the field in new ways that are consistent with its mission "to catalyze and support research, innovation and investment in digital media technologies to advance children's learning." Traditionally, the Center's tools for influencing the field have included research reports, convenings, and other forms of "thought leadership," as well as talent development including fellowship programs for new researchers. At the same time, the Centers staff and advisors have identified various opportunities to more directly influence innovation and investment, e.g., by directly bridging the work of academics and creators with the goal of improving the design and development of new digital products for children. The Center worked with San Francisco-based consulting firm Entangled Solutions to analyze opportunities for positively influencing this market based on potential for impact, revenue sources, competitive advantage, existing capability, and required investment. The team began working on two approaches: first, a free resource for the field called "Playtesting with Kids," a web-based toolkit to help product teams that are new to user experience research and/or new to working with children and second, an "applied R&D" service targeting early-stage development teams to ensure high learning impact and approaches to reaching a more diverse and inclusive audience of children. The team initiated work on both projects in FY20 with plans to release both formally in FY21. 1117020 true false false false false false false false false false false true false false true true false true false false false false false false false false false true false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false true 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false X 5 2 false false false false true true true true true false false true true true true true true true false false NY X X DARYL MINTZSESAME WORKSHOP 2128756827 1900 BROADWAY New York NY 10023 JEFFREY DUNN DIRECTOR 2.0 50.0 X 0 903418 59966 Stephen Youngwood Director 1.0 50.0 X 0 615765 35712 Michael Levine Director 1.0 50.0 X 0 483760 42995 JOSEPH SALVO SECRETARY 2.0 50.0 X 0 457100 69432 DARYL MINTZ TREASURER 2.0 50.0 X 0 439629 69658 MICHAEL Preston EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 50.0 0.0 X 0 219520 31631 Lori Takeuchi Deputy Director 50.0 0.0 X 0 220102 29113 JOAN GANZ COONEY director 1.0 1.0 X 0 0 0 LlOYD MORRISETT Director 1.0 1.0 X 0 0 0 0 3339294 338507 0 false true false 0 0 PROGRAM EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 900099 173572 173572 173572 32448 32448 0 1018 1018 0 0 0 201397 300045 -98648 -98648 -98648 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 108390 173572 -65182 23553 23553 0 0 0 492191 319924 73829 98438 0 439592 373653 43959 21980 0 177811 151139 17781 8891 1788 1520 179 89 66527 66527 0 0 0 0 64256 64256 162361 148268 10264 3829 1890 1890 2942 2181 633 128 30412 25850 3041 1521 0 44532 37852 4453 2227 29327 24928 2933 1466 0 986 887 99 0 0 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS 5375 5375 0 0 1543543 1117020 287954 138569 0 0 321911 109656 0 0 0 204005 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23413000 23551764 0 0 0 0 0 0 23734911 23865425 2627 29453 0 0 5 88752 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3705664 3849636 3708296 3967841 X 19989615 19897584 37000 0 20026615 19897584 23734911 23865425 -1435153 1306122 X false true X true false X 1846441 7310415 4559 0 0 9161415 0 0 1846441 7310415 4559 0 0 9161415 6021348 3140067 1144 3043 669 61257 33466 99579 7805 7805 0 9268799 178920 0.33878 0.36886 X DIVERSIFIED INVESTMENTS 23551764 F 23551764 0 INTERCOMPANY PAYABLE 3849636 3849636 X FIN 48 FOOTNOTE - ASC 740: INCOME TAXES THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER DOES NOT RECEIVE ITS OWN STANDALONE AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER IS INCLUDED WITHIN THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF ITS PARENT, SESAME WORKSHOP. THE BELOW FIN-48 FOOTNOTE IS REPRODUCED FROM THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. THE COMPANY FOLLOWS GUIDANCE THAT CLARIFIES THE ACCOUNTING FOR UNCERTAINTY IN TAX POSITIONS TAKEN OR EXPECTED TO BE TAKEN IN A TAX RETURN, INCLUDING ISSUES RELATING TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENT RECOGNITION AND MEASUREMENT. THIS GUIDANCE PROVIDES THAT THE TAX EFFECTS FROM AN UNCERTAIN TAX POSITION CAN ONLY BE RECOGNIZED IN THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IF THE POSITION IS "MORE-LIKELY-THAN-NOT" TO BE SUSTAINED IF THE POSITION WERE TO BE CHALLENGED BY A TAXING AUTHORITY. THE ASSESSMENT OF THE TAX POSITION IS BASED SOLELY ON THE TECHNICAL MERITS OF THE POSITION, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE TAX POSITION MAY BE CHALLENGED. THE COMPANY IS EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX UNDER IRC SECTION 501(C)(3), THOUGH IT IS SUBJECT TO TAX ON INCOME UNRELATED TO ITS EXEMPT PURPOSE, UNLESS THAT INCOME IS OTHERWISE EXCLUDED BY THE CODE. THE COMPANY HAS PROCESSES PRESENTLY IN PLACE TO ENSURE THE MAINTENANCE OF ITS TAX-EXEMPT STATUS; TO IDENTIFY AND REPORT UNRELATED INCOME; TO DETERMINE ITS FILING AND TAX OBLIGATIONS IN JURISDICTIONS FOR WHICH IT HAS NEXUS; AND TO IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED TAX POSITIONS. 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EACH OF THESE GRANT ARRANGEMENTS ARE MEMORIALIZED WITH SUBGRANT AGREEMENTS THAT REQUIRE THE SUBGRANTEE TO DELIVER A PROGRAM NARRATIVE SUMMARIZING ANY RESEARCH FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS FROM THE RESEARCH. THE CENTER ALSO REQUIRES EACH SUBGRANTEE TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL REPORTS TWICE A YEAR DESCRIBING PROJECT EXPENDITURES AS COMPARED TO THE BUDGET. true false false false false false false true false JEFFREY DUNN DIRECTOR 0 676257 0 223300 0 3861 0 28000 0 31966 0 963384 0 0 MICHAEL Preston EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 0 197929 0 21288 0 303 0 0 0 31631 0 251151 0 0 DARYL MINTZ TREASURER 0 337959 0 101136 0 534 0 28000 0 41658 0 509287 0 0 JOSEPH SALVO SECRETARY 0 344190 0 107800 0 5110 0 28000 0 41432 0 526532 0 0 Lori Takeuchi Deputy Director 0 178226 0 41638 0 238 0 17424 0 11689 0 249215 0 0 Michael Levine Director 0 235527 0 59000 0 189233 0 20896 0 22099 0 526755 0 0 Stephen Youngwood Director 0 469825 0 144760 0 1180 0 28000 0 7712 0 651477 0 0 Part I, line 4a Director, Michael Levine, received a severance payment of $187,212 in calendar year 2019; this amount is reported in Schedule J, Part II, Column (b)(iii). PART I, LINE 7 OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S REPORTED ON SCHEDULE J OF THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER'S FORM 990, ONLY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and the Deputy Director EXCLUSIVELY PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE CENTER (AND YET RECEIVE A W-2 FROM SESAME WORKSHOP, ITS MEMBER ORGANIZATION). Both THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and Deputy director PARTICIPATE IN SESAME WORKSHOP'S TARGETED INCENTIVE PROGRAM, AS DO THE OTHER INDIVIDUALS REPORTED IN SCHEDULE J. THE TARGETED INCENTIVE COMPENSATION AMOUNT REPORTED FOR EACH EMPLOYEE IS BASED ON A COMBINATION OF JOB LEVEL, INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE AND COMPANY PERFORMANCE. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SESAME WORKSHOP, DETERMINES WHETHER INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE FOR A GIVEN YEAR AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE FOR INCENTIVE COMPENSATION. PART VI, SECTION A LINE 7A AND 7B SESAME WORKSHOP IS THE SOLE MEMBER OF THE ORGANIZATION. IT HAS THE RIGHT TO ELECT OR REMOVE DIRECTORS AS WELL AS APPROVE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE BYLAWS OF THE ORGANIZATION. PART VI SECTION B, LINE 11B THE FORM 990 WAS PREPARED BY AN INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTING FIRM IN CONJUNCTION WITH SESAME WORKHOP'S INTERNAL FINANCE DEPARTMENT. A SECONDARY REVIEW IS DONE BY SESAME WORKSHOP'S GENERAL COUNSEL, AND A COPY OF THE COMPLETED 990 IS DISTRIBUTED TO THE FULL BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRIOR TO ITS FILING WITH THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. PART VI SECTION B, LINE 12C AS PART OF SESAME WORKSHOP'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST, ALL DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS, INCLUDING THOSE OF THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER, ARE REQUIRED TO REVIEW THE POLICY ANNUALLY, AND DISCLOSE ANY REAL OR POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN RESPONSE TO A CONFLICT OF INTEREST QUESTIONNAIRE. THE COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES ARE REVIEWED BY THE GENERAL COUNSEL/SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. IN THE EVENT OF A REAL OR POTENTIAL CONFLICT, THE BOARD AND THE GENERAL COUNSEL/SECRETARY SHALL ENFORCE THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY'S REQUIREMENT OF RECUSAL FROM PARTICIPATING IN ANY DELIBERATIONS AND DECISIONS RELEVANT TO THE DISCLOSURES. FORM 990, PART VI, LINES 15A & 15B ALL OFFICERS REPORTED ON THE FORM 990 (INCLUDING MICHAEL PRESTON) RECEIVE THEIR COMPENSATION FROM A RELATED ORGANIZATION, SESAME WORKSHOP. THE PROCESS FOR DETERMINING THE COMPENSATION OF THESE INDIVIDUALS IS REPORTED ON THAT ORGANIZATION'S ANNUAL FORM 990. PART VI SECTION C, LINE 19 THE JOAN GANZ COONEY'S FORM 990 IS AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE (HTTP://JOANGANZCOONEYCENTER.ORG) AND ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.GUIDESTAR.ORG. A FULL COPY OF THE CONSOLIDATED AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF SESAME WORKSHOP WHICH INCLUDE THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER, ARE AVAILABLE ON THE SESAME WORKSHOP WEBSITE, WWW.SESAMEWORKSHOP.ORG. 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