M Center of Excellence
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
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.
- Income
- $420
- Spending
- $54,048
- Reserves
- 66.4 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- investment income, 100%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- 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.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since May 2019.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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