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Nonprofit · EIN 83-2265882

M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Tax-exempt · PORTLAND, OR 97209

Financials

$2K$862023$2K$2K2024$420$54K2025
Revenue Expenses · by fiscal year end
Financials of M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE by year, from its e-filed returns
Year endedFormRevenueExpensesNet incomeTotal assetsLiabilitiesNet assets
December 31, 2025990-EZ$420$54,048-$53,628$299,026–$299,026
December 31, 2024990-EZ (amended)$1,717$2,443-$726$359,822$0$359,822
December 31, 2023990-EZ$1,934$86$1,848$166,212$0$166,212
Financial details: 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025

Revenue

Investment income
$420

Expenses

Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
$0
Other expenses
$54,048

Balance sheet and other

Total assets, start of year
$359,822
Total assets, end of year
$299,026
Total liabilities, end of year
–
Net assets, end of year
$299,026
Cash, savings and investments
$111,858
Gross receipts
$420

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.

NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Kristin BarensDirector and President0.5$0
Russell BundschuhDirector Secretary and Treasurer0.5$0
Dana ArdiDirector0.5$0
Dawn BenkeDirector0.5$0
Pinchas CohenDirector0.5$0
Paul IrvingDirector0.5$0
Jay ClearyDirector0.5$0
990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024: 7 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Kristi BarensDirector and President0.5$0
Russell BundschuhDirector Secretary and Treasurer0.5$0
Dana ArdiDirector0.5$0
Dawn BenkeDirector0.5$0
Pinchas CohenDirector0.5$0
Paul IrvingDirector0.5$0
Jay ClearyDirector0.5$0
990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2023: 6 people
NameTitleHours / weekCompensation
Eugene LoVascoDirector, Secretary and Treasurer0.5$0
Paul IrvingDirector0.5$0
Dawn BehnkeDirector0.5$0
Dr Dana ArdiDirector0.5$0
Dr Pinchas CohenDirector0.5$0
George NicholsDirector0.5$0

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)
1125 NW COUCH ST STE 900, PORTLAND, OR 97209-4129
In care of
% KRISTIN L BARENS
Signed the 990-EZ
Conor Logan, Accountant

Mission

The Foundations specific purposes include conducting research scientific charitable and educational programming related to longevity vitality enhancement in society and more specifically with respect to financial security health and well-being and life purpose options to support fulfillment.

990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025

Program accomplishments

  • Milken Institute Center for the Future of Agings The Future of Retirement Project - Project Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated interest in the health wealth work and social engagement of older adults. Goals have been reexamined and challenges and inequities highlighted. With a rapidly aging population work to improve the retirement years of older Americans is more crucial than ever. Our objective is to identify gaps and opportunities for action and to help individuals and institutions realize the upsides and mitigate the risks of longer lives. While the financial services industry the healthcare sector and policymakers have focused significant efforts on preparation for the retirement years they have largely worked within their own silos. The Project will provide a forum and platform for cross-sector collaboration among these and other stakeholders in developing tools programs recommendations and innovative solutions to maximize the possibilities and potential of 21st Century retirement.
  • Encores Co-generational Service Project - The focus: Co-generational service bringing the distinctive and complementary talents of older and younger people together in ways that help solve important social problems forge meaningful intergenerational bonds bridge differences and enhance understanding between the generations. The problem: The time for this work is upon us. We are becoming a much more multigenerational society but due to widespread age segregation and other barriers are ill-prepared for both making the most of longer lives and the prospect of five generations living and working together. Ageism is widespread. There is talk of generational conflict with older people and younger ones too often locked in a zero-sum struggle. And loneliness is widely seen as one of the most significant public health issues facing the nation with older and younger people the two most socially isolated groups in America today. A proposed solution: Service programs are one way to address this problem. Some organizations are already mobilizing younger people to serve older ones while others are mobilizing older individuals to serve young ones. We want to bring older and younger people together to serve jointly side by side helping others while strengthening the communities where they serve and the nation as a whole. This new initiative will help catalyze elevate and expand these joint co-generational service opportunities. Over time we believe this model can help produce an overall norm shift in society from one that rejects the contributions of elders and cuts generations off from each other to one built around the prospect of generational connection and collaboration. Encores new initiative to catalyze co-generational service builds on our long history in advancing service and volunteering by older people starting with the creation of Experience Corps two decades ago. Although Experience Corps was designed to recruit and place older people to help children and youth in some cities young adults in programs like VISTA and AmeriCorps were engaged alongside the older Experience Corps members. There was magic in these connections sparking the idea of co-generational service that underpins this new initiative. We are now poised to advance this approach in more expansive and systematic fashion.
  • The American College of Financial Services Project for Financial Education and Longevity in the Black Community Focus: Black women are the gatekeepers for families and communities. Black women are the primary or co-breadwinner for 68% of Black households make up 66% of Black baccalaureate degree holders and are the only racial or ethnic group with more business ownership than their male peers. The American Colleges financial education programs will empower Black women with the knowledge and resources to help narrow the wealth gap and promote generational financial literacy and lead to longer and more vibrant lives. Two certificate options will be offered. Tier one will be a participant certificate focused on individual education and knowledge and a tier two certificate will be focused on group financial education delivery. From this foundation the College will expand its financial education program offerings to provide knowledge solutions that can be delivered to learners in all walks of life through delivery in workplaces and through group business to small business owners and to the veterans community in partnership with the American College Center for Veterans Affairs.
  • USC School of Gerontologys Project for Lifetime Circumstances Predicting Exceptional Longevity - The Problem. A topic of interest to the M Center is extreme longevity - or survival to very old ages. We propose to examine the lifetime characteristics of people who survive to be centenarians. While others have looked at the genetic factors linked to very old survival we think that social factors will have higher explanatory power and should be considered in addition to or while accounting for genetic differences. We believe that looking at exceptional survivors will offer clues as to why many people survive longer than average not just why a few survive to very old age. These insights will be useful to individual and societal planning for future longevity. Survival is related to a lifetime of experiences including childhood health and social environment adult exposures to risk through jobs adult health and health behaviors and lifetime social support from family friends and ones social network. It is also likely that peoples psychological traits influence how they experience stressful circumstances over their lives and affect longevity. Certainly biology plays a role in survival but increasingly we find that later life biology is influenced by early life social behavioral and health circumstances. It is appropriate at this moment in time to examine survival at very old ages because nationally representative data sets collected over the last two to three decades have amassed a wealth of information on life circumstances for people who are now centenarians. Ailshire and Crimmins examined the health characteristics of people who lived to be very old older than 97 years of age a few years ago and determined that delaying hypertension and diabetes were the most important factors in determining who lived to very old age. At the time they had only a small number of cases and did not investigate social behavioral and psychological factors along with specific life circumstances including jobs marriage military service traumas support from friends family and community. Nevertheless all of these factors are likely to influence the trajectory of health over the lifespan and ultimate survival. What will be supported and produced. 1 We will convene a group of scholars at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology both experienced and emerging scholars to select and examine predictors of exceptional survival one domain and one topic at a time. For example we will carefully consider and study the effect of psychological factors lifetime stress health occupational history social support community support etc. on how long one lives and which factors most contribute or prevent survival to very old age. 2 This will culminate in an integration of data using lifetime characteristics across social behavioral and economic domains to see which factors are most important in predicting survival to exceptional old age. The analysis and final data integration will yield important information necessary for assessing current knowledge around longevity particularly the extent to which we can attribute exceptionally long lives to non-biological factors. 3 This grant will provide research support to younger scholars to conduct data analysis and write up and publish research findings. 4 We will also convene a meeting of multidisciplinary scholars with additional expertise and data from other countries to see if the findings which will be based on US data are similar to those in other countries. 5 This work will produce a series of research articles as well as articles for the popular press such as the Conversation. 6 Findings will be used to develop projections for the coming generations of the likelihood of living to exceptional old age. These projections will have been based on our examination of exceptional survival rather than average or modal survival the lifespan of the average person in the United States making them unique in the field of demography and of great interest to those who are interested in the very long-lived.

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

Tax yearYear endedDueIRS public records
2025December 31, 2025May 15, 2026990-EZ on file
2024December 31, 2024May 15, 2025990-EZ on file
2023December 31, 2023May 15, 2024990-EZ on file

IRS record

EIN
83-2265882
Tax-exempt status
501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
Foundation status
Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
Donations deductible (Pub 78)
Public charity, 50% deduction limit
Exempt since
2019
Accounting year ends
December
Files
Form 990-N (e-Postcard)
Assets (IRS master file)
$299,026
Income (IRS master file)
$420

Filing history

FormYear endedRevenueExpensesAssetsReturn
990-EZDecember 2025$420$54,048$299,026IRS
990-EZDecember 2024$1,717$2,443$165,486XML
990-EZDecember 2023$1,934$86$166,212XML
990-EZDecember 2022–––IRS
990December 2021–––IRS
990December 2020–––IRS

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 83-2265882).

Questions about M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

What is the EIN of M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE?
The employer identification number (EIN) of M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE is 83-2265882.
Is M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE tax-exempt?
Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2019.
Are donations to M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE tax-deductible?
Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
Which annual return does M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE file?
Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less.
When is the next return of M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE due?
The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
When did M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE last file with the IRS?
The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended December 2025.
Who are the officers and directors of M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE?
The 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 7 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
How much revenue does M CENTER OF EXCELLENCE have?
On its 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $420, expenses of $54,048 and total assets of $299,026 at year end.

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