Form 990 for tax year 2022

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2022 , filed 20 February 2024. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue

$4,679,737 →changed to $2,704,737

Contributions and grants received

$4,586,959 →changed to $2,611,959

Totals

Total revenue

$4,679,737

Total expenses

$1,029,193

Contributions and grants received

$4,586,959

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$92,142

Investment income

$175

Other revenue

$461

Total assets, end of year

$4,853,655

Total liabilities, end of year

$621,541

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$4,232,114

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$858,835

Management and general expenses

$123,358

Fundraising expenses

$47,000

Program service expenses (Part III)

$858,835

Program services were 83.4% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• SCRIBE CONTINUED TO CONDUCT OUR ACTIVITIES INCLUDING WORKSHOPS, SPECIAL EVENTS, AND SPECIAL LEARNING SESSIONS WITH NATIONALLY KNOWN VIDEOMAKERS, DIGITAL MEDIA ARTISTS AND AUDIO PRODUCERS. THESE PROGRAMS WERE OFFERED ON- LINE USING CROWDCAST AND ZOOM, AS WELL AS AT LIMITED CAPACITY IN-PERSON. WE CONTINUED OUR SCREENING SERIES, PRODUCERS' FORUM, STORYVILLE AND BODY OF WORK. ONE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SEASON INCLUDED A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE WORK OF CAMILLE BILLOPS AND JAMES HATCH. THE SCREENING INCLUDE A SHOWING OF FINDING CHRISTA, WHICH BILLOPS DIRECTED WITH HATCH, THAT DOCUMENTED HER REUNION WITH HER DAUGHTER AFTER 20 YEARS AND WON AN AWARD AT THE 1992 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. WE HELD SCREENINGS OF LOCALLY PRODUCED FILMS IN OUR STORYVILLE SERIES. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED PROGRAMMING FROM THE NEW NEGRESS SOCIETY AND A COLLECTION OF VINTAGE WORKS FROM THE REEL BLACK ARCHIVES. WE PRESENTED STREET MOVIES AN OUTDOOR SCREENING SERIES OF FAMILY FRIENDLY INDEPENDENT FILMS PRESENTED IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE REGION. WE WORKED IN 12 COMMUNITIES INCLUDING WEST PHILLY, SOUTH PHILLY, NORTH PHILLY, GERMANTOWN, WEST OAK LANE, AND CAMDEN. LOCAL PERFORMING ARTISTS, SUCH AS SINGER SAMANTHA RISE AND JAZZ BAND SONIC LIBERATION FRONT, OPENED THE SCREENINGS WITH ON-SITE PERFORMANCES. WE SELECTED OUR SECOND COHORT OF ORAL HISTORY CONDUCTORS TO COLLECT INTERVIEWS FOR OUR POWER POLITICS INITIATIVE, AN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT THAT DOCUMENTS AND EXPLORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK AND BROWN POLITICS IN PHILADELPHIA IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1945 AND 2015. THE PROJECT HAS INVESTIGATED THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THE WAYS AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LATINX PEOPLE WORKED TO SECURE THEIR REPRESENTATIVE SHARE OF POLITICAL POWER FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES. ADDITIONALLY IT HAS SERVED AS A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL AGED INTERVIEWERS WHO WERE GUIDED BY JOURNALIST MENTORS (BARBARA GRANT, KAREN WARRINGTON, AND LINN WASHINGTON), TO RECORD AND DOCUMENT THE ORAL HISTORIES OF MANY BLACK AND LATINX POLITICAL LEADERS. SPEAKERS INCLUDE CECILY BANKS, DAUGHTER OF CECIL B. MOORE, PAULA PEEBLES, VETERAN PANTHER OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, AND MANY MORE. THE INTERVIEWS ARE BEING SHARED WEEKLY ON WURD. WE COMPLETED A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY PROJECT FOR YOUTH PRODUCTION. OUR TEEN FILMMAKERS REFLECTED ON NEW VISIONS OF PHILADELPHIA- GRAPPLING WITH PERTINENT THEMES SUCH AS GUN VIOLENCE, DISABILITY RIGHTS, PHILADELPHIA'S UNIQUE MUSIC SCENE, AND MORE. 15 YOUTH RECRUITED FROM PHILADELPHIA'S PUBLIC AND CHARTER SCHOOLS PARTICIPATED. THE WORKS PREMIERED IN ON DECEMBER 11, 2022 IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ON PENN'S CAMPUS. WE COMPLETED PRODUCTION OF ANOTHER CYCLE OF THE PRECIOUS PLACES COMMUNITY HISTORY PROJECT WHERE 8 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVED THE TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO PRODUCE A COMMUNITY HISTORY PROJECT THAT CREATES SHORT VIDEO WORKS ON SPECIAL PLACES THROUGHOUT THE REGION. REPRESENTATIVE WORKS TOLD THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN ARDMORE, CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL IN LOGAN, COBBS CREEK COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER IN COBBS CREEK PARK, THE FETTERSVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CAMDEN, NJ; MT. ZION AME CHURCH IN DEVON, PA, PINE FORGE ACADEMY IN PINE FORGE, PA, THE PYRAMID CLUB IN NORTH CENTRAL AND SULLIVAN PROGRESS PLAZA/HUMAN SERVICES CENTER IN NORTH PHILADELPHIA.

  Expenses $609,272 · Revenue $38,242

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $9,871 · Revenue $53,900

• FISCAL SPONSORSHIP.

  Expenses $239,692

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

17 January 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202430179349300818

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