Totals
- Total revenue
- $701,438
- Total expenses
- $1,184,771
- Contributions and grants received
- $658,810
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $42,453
- Investment income
- $175
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $256,623
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $35,791
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $220,832
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,112,852
- Management and general expenses
- $71,919
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,112,852
Program services were 93.9% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$658,810
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2a · Program service revenue: Film sales/rentals
total $31,817 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Box office revenue
total $10,636 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $175 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $175
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $240,717 · program services $220,500 · management and general $20,217 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $33,702 · program services $25,131 · management and general $8,571 · fundraising $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $17,021 · program services $15,473 · management and general $1,548 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $342 · program services $0 · management and general $342 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $36,500 · program services $27,350 · management and general $9,150 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $583,566 · program services $576,127 · management and general $7,439 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $67,369 · program services $66,290 · management and general $1,079 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $14,568 · program services $9,815 · management and general $4,753 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $5,660 · program services $3,101 · management and general $2,559 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $27,645 · program services $20,250 · management and general $7,395 · fundraising $0
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17 · Travel
total $80,135 · program services $78,526 · management and general $1,609 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $9,897 · program services $9,343 · management and general $554 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $142 · program services $0 · management and general $142 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $1,852 · program services $0 · management and general $1,852 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: Rights
total $2,500 · program services $2,500 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: Copyright fees
total $51,437 · program services $50,937 · management and general $500 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: Dues, book, Publ. & subsc.
total $8,471 · program services $6,255 · management and general $2,216 · fundraising $0
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24d · Other expenses: Miscellaneous exp.
total $3,247 · program services $1,254 · management and general $1,993 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $457,517 · end of year $140,445
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $280,096 · end of year $115,506
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$83,900
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$83,228
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $814 · end of year $672
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $20,000 · end of year $29,500
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $14,262 · end of year $6,291
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year -$41,122 · end of year -$61,534
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $745,287 · end of year $282,366
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
Production and distribution of films to educate the public on social issues of the past and present.
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The film Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascotting was completed, and had an amazing year. Along the way, it was honored by the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, included in The Washington Posts list of best films in 2023, and won Best Picture at numerous film festivals. It had a theatrical run that hit fifteen different cities. Theres more to come with the online educational curriculum (developed with PBS Learning Media and National Indian Education Association) debuting and upcoming availability on iTunes and Amazon in mid-February, 2024. The Foundation also completed sound design, color correction, and the music score for the film A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings in which filmmaker and Berlin-born Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother Hanka and uncle Dudek Cieslas lives before and during World War II. It was released in May at the JxJ Film and Music Festival in Washington DC, where it won the audience prize for Best Documentary. The film made its European premiere at the Berlin Jewish Film Festival and was played in festivals in Boston, Miami, Hartford, and Nashville to universal acclaim. The film also had a one-month theatrical run at the Avalon Theater in Washington DC. The film will screen at several universities in 2024 including Penn State, Cornell, and American University. We started working on digitizing our film from 1986 Partisans of Vilna, so a new Partisans Blu-Ray with extra interviews and additional bonus features can be released by the end of 2024. In addition, the Foundation added staff to continue to work on Aviva Kempners latest documentary about Hollywood screenwriter and activist, Ben Hecht. Hecht was initially a Chicago newspaperman, distinguised author, playwright, and Oscar-winning screenwriter from the 1920s through the 1940s. The Executive Director and team filmed interviews with historians and movie scholars for the film in the US and overseas. Intensive research has been undertaken, gathered archival material, and started editing the film. The film will be completed and released by early 2025.
Expenses $1,112,852 · Revenue $42,453
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Aviva Kempner
Exec. Dir.
- Total calculated
- $240,717
- From this org
- $236,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,217
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $236,500
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $4,217
- Filer's total
- $240,717
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Jonathan Kempner
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dr Eva Fogelman
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dr Lise Van Susteren
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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 · First-class or charter travel
- 1a · Payments for business use of a personal residence
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
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
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.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 22 July 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.1
- Source object
- 202442049349301309
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