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← FILM FORUM INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by FILM FORUM INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$7,297,410
Total expenses
$7,725,037
Contributions and grants received
$3,498,815
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$2,892,032
Investment income
$386,195
Other revenue
$520,368
Total assets, end of year
$26,403,864
Total liabilities, end of year
$8,047,943
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$18,355,921
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$6,118,972
Management and general expenses
$892,030
Fundraising expenses
$714,035
Program service expenses (Part III)
$6,118,972

Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $621,872

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $185,915

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,691,028

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $130,078

  • 2a · Program service revenue: ADMISSIONS/VIRTUAL PRO

    total $2,590,810 · related or exempt $2,590,810

  • 2b · Program service revenue: TICKET HANDING FEES

    total $154,302 · related or exempt $154,302

  • 2c · Program service revenue: FISCAL AGENT FEES

    total $146,920 · related or exempt $146,920

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $285,476 · excluded $285,476

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $125,200

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $125,200

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $125,200 · excluded $125,200

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $286,454

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $185,735

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $100,719

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $100,719 · excluded $100,719

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $552,542

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $191,817

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $360,725 · excluded $360,725

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $34,443 · excluded $34,443

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $34,443

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $449,728 · program services $224,864 · management and general $128,267 · fundraising $96,597

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,980,791 · program services $2,418,167 · management and general $205,871 · fundraising $356,753

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $57,037 · program services $44,110 · management and general $5,452 · fundraising $7,475

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $366,039 · program services $293,072 · management and general $28,790 · fundraising $44,177

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $300,678 · program services $232,532 · management and general $28,743 · fundraising $39,403

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $692 · program services $554 · management and general $83 · fundraising $55

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $38,379 · management and general $38,379

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $30,000 · management and general $30,000

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $297,083 · program services $258,803 · management and general $22,968 · fundraising $15,312

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $112,323 · program services $112,323

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $252,690 · program services $223,489 · management and general $17,521 · fundraising $11,680

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $879,864 · program services $703,891 · management and general $105,584 · fundraising $70,389

  • 17 · Travel

    total $98,358 · program services $88,096 · management and general $6,157 · fundraising $4,105

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $495,063 · program services $313,183 · management and general $150,562 · fundraising $31,318

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $47,895 · program services $38,316 · management and general $5,747 · fundraising $3,832

  • 24a · Other expenses: FILM RENTAL

    total $803,473 · program services $803,473

  • 24b · Other expenses: MAINTENANCE

    total $171,833 · program services $109,754 · management and general $51,104 · fundraising $10,975

  • 24c · Other expenses: CREDIT CARD FEES

    total $154,232 · program services $123,386 · management and general $18,507 · fundraising $12,339

  • 24d · Other expenses: SOFTWARE & DATABASE FEE

    total $57,523 · program services $46,018 · management and general $6,903 · fundraising $4,602

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $131,356 · program services $84,941 · management and general $41,392 · fundraising $5,023

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,066,093 · end of year $1,775,829

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,487,560 · end of year $2,627,273

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,111,614 · end of year $866,713

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $16,433 · end of year $28,550

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $2,210 · end of year $4,119

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $40,681 · end of year $71,335

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $16,334,747

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $9,392,198

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $7,402,203 · end of year $6,942,549

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $6,537,105 · end of year $7,501,729

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $7,090,576 · end of year $6,585,767

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $386,301 · end of year $355,573

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $372,772 · end of year $389,120

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $7,745,776 · end of year $7,303,250

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $11,594,521 · end of year $11,288,532

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,655,105 · end of year $7,067,389

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

FILM FORUM'S MISSION IS TWO-FOLD: 1) TO SERVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY PRESENTING THE HIGHEST CALIBER OF WORK TO THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE - ENCOURAGING THE APPRECIATION OF NEW, CHALLENGING FILMS (BOTH AMERICAN AND FOREIGN FILMS), AND BRINGING THE PUBLIC A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT MOVIES THROUGH AN AMBITIOUS, INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED REPERTORY PROGRAM.2) TO SERVE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS BY PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE CRITICAL PRESS COVERAGE IN ADDITION TO GENEROUS REMUNERATION FOR THEIR CREATIVE WORK. FILM FORUM PRESENTS FILMS YEAR-ROUND THAT EDUCATE, SURPRISE, CHALLENGE, MOVE AND ENTERTAIN.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FILM FORUM EXHIBITS NEW INDEPENDENT FILMS AND REPERTORY FILMS FROM CINEMA HISTORY.

  • FILM EXHIBITION FILM FORUM CONTINUES ITS WORK OF: PREMIERING AN INTERNATIONAL ARRAY OF NEW FILMS THAT TREAT DIVERSE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL REALITIES; AND, PRESENTING THE BEST IN CLASSIC AND GENRE CINEMA FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND TAKING RISKS ON MOVIES BOTH OLD AND NEW. PROGRAMMING IS BASED ON A FILM'S INHERENT ARTISTIC QUALITY AS OPPOSED TO COMMERCIAL CINEMAS THAT MAKE DECISIONS BASED ON THE BROADEST BOX OFFICE APPEAL.

    Expenses $6,118,972 · Revenue $2,892,032

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Gray Coleman

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sonya Chung

    PRESIDENT & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $176,732
    From this org
    $156,147
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,585
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,659
    Bonus
    $19,488
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,585
    Filer's total
    $176,732
  • Karen Cooper

    ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $381,190
    From this org
    $337,565
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,625
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $337,565
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $22,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,125
    Filer's total
    $358,690 + $22,500 related
  • Stella Strazdas

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hugo Barreca

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kristina Dalio

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Fierberg

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carlos Gutierrez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maureen Hayes

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregg Horowitz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Oscar Isaac

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alan Klein

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Natasha Lyonne

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matt McClure

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katie Model

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Palladino

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paige Royer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vivian Ostrovsky

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne-Victoire Auriault

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joel Coen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yoruba Richen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Max Rifkind-Barron

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anna Sui

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shelley Wanger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chad Bolton

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $185,852
    From this org
    $169,424
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,428
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,736
    Bonus
    $29,688
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,428
    Filer's total
    $185,852
  • Bruce Goldstein

    REPERTORY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $203,118
    From this org
    $164,026
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,092
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,026
    Bonus
    $30,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $39,092
    Filer's total
    $203,118
  • Michael J Maggiore

    PREMIERES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $207,386
    From this org
    $205,302
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,084
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,802
    Bonus
    $20,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,084
    Filer's total
    $207,386
  • Francine Crawford

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $144,065
    From this org
    $128,077
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,988
    Hours/week
    40
  • Adam Grant-Walker

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $155,581
    From this org
    $136,559
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,022
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,559
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,022
    Filer's total
    $155,581
  • Mary E Obias

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $139,372
    From this org
    $121,489
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,883
    Hours/week
    40

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 1a · Tax indemnification and gross-up payments
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 1A
LIFE INSURANCE IS PAID BY THE COMPANY FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT AS A GROSS-UP PAYMENT.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • FILM FORUM REAL ESTATE LLC

    REAL ESTATE OWNERSHIP AND RENTAL · NY · income $131,229 · assets $4,714,182

    Directly controlled by FILM FORUM INC

Related corporations and trusts

Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.

  • FILM FORUM CONDOMINIUM CORPORATION

    C · PROPERTY MANAGEMENT · NY · 66.67% owned · share of assets $99,332

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
6 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202531269349303368

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