Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by VIDEO VERACITY INC.

Totals

Total revenue: $551,790
Total expenses: $551,790
Contributions and grants received: $551,790
Grants paid: $540,605
Program service revenue: $0
Investment income: $0
Other revenue: $0
Total assets, end of year: $307,485
Total liabilities, end of year: $307,485
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $0
Program services expenses (Part IX): $551,790
Management and general expenses: $0
Fundraising expenses: $0
Program service expenses (Part III): $551,790

Program services were 100.0% 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.

1a · Federated campaigns

$0
1b · Membership dues

$0
1c · Fundraising events

$0
1d · Related organizations

$0
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$0
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$551,790
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$0
2f · All other program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
3 · Investment income

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
5 · Royalties

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
6a · Gross rents

real property $0 · personal property $0
6b · Less rental expenses

real property $0 · personal property $0
6c · Rental income or loss

real property $0 · personal property $0
6d · Net rental income or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $0 · other assets $0
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $0 · other assets $0
7c · Gain or loss

securities $0 · other assets $0
7d · Net gain or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$0
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$0
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$0
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
9a · Gaming: gross income

$0
9b · Gaming: direct expenses

$0
9c · Net income from gaming

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
10a · Gross sales of inventory

$0
10b · Cost of goods sold

$0
10c · Net income from sales of inventory

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11e · Other revenue, total

$0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

total $520,566 · program services $520,566
2 · Grants to domestic individuals

total $20,039 · program services $20,039
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

total $0
4 · Benefits paid to or for members

total $0
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $0
11a · Fees: management

total $8,269 · program services $8,269
11c · Fees: accounting

total $2,000 · program services $2,000
12 · Advertising and promotion

total $66 · program services $66
13 · Office expenses

total $41 · program services $41
14 · Information technology

total $188 · program services $188
24a · Other expenses: Postage, delivery, printing

total $50 · program services $50 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24b · Other expenses: Banking, Paypal fees on donations

total $556 · program services $556 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24c · Other expenses: Corporate - Sec of State

total $15 · program services $15 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $273,334 · end of year $307,485
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $9,417 · end of year $12,301
18 · Grants payable

beginning of year $263,917 · end of year $295,184
29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Support and encourage the creation and distribution of independent educational documentary programming not traditionally supported by commercial financing, for regional, national, and international audiences via film festivals, broadcasts, cablecasts, streaming, and other means of distribution.

Video Veracity made regrants to these non-profit educational documentary film & television projects (and film support & distribution groups) that will or are collectively reaching audiences numbering in the hundreds of thousands, or in some cases millions, via film festivals, broadcasts, cablecasts, online streaming & other distribution, disc-based distribution, classroom exhibition, and theatrical showings: Commuted, a film on making meaning after a life sentence is commuted, received $98,000 and continued in production; Creole Feast: Legacy, a film on unheralded Black chefs in New Orleans, received $4,900 and continued in production; Under G-d, a film on abortion issues in Jewish and other communities, received $256,760 and continued in production; My Ascension, a film on suicide prevention, received $6,652 and continued in distribution; Powerlands, a film on the displacement of Indigenous people, received $73,500 and continued in production and distribution; Roleplay, a film on sexual assault awareness on college campuses, received $8,489 and continued in production; City of a Million Dreams, a film on the history of New Orleans through the lens of the jazz funeral, received $19,600 and continued in distribution; The Claiborne Avenue History Project, a film on one of New Orleans' famous largely African-American business and residential corridors that was highly affected by construction of Interstate 10 in the 1960s, received $49,907 and continued in production; Give Light, a film on midwives, received $2,940 and continued in production and distribution; Patois New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival, a festival exhibiting documentary film, received $8,943 and continued its work; and the following documentary films and projects continued in production and/or distribution, and received various levels of financial and/or producing support: Hollow Tree, Last Days of the Hummingbird Grill; Untitled Peace Project; Unprisoned; Ashe; Bayou Maharajah; Free For All; Mossville; Our Voices; Big Charity; Buckjumping; and All Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk. Many other projects that received financial support in previous years continued in production and distribution, and in some cases received technical, production, or other non-financial assistance.

Expenses $551,790 · Grants $540,605

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Tim Watson

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Rebecca Snedeker

Officer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Amy Nesbitt

Officer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Aimee Toledano

Officer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5

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

GUSTO MOVING PICTURES LLC

$256,760

Produce documentary film.
COMMUTED FILM LLC

$98,000

Produce documentary film.
CLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC

$49,907

Produce documentary film.
SOLIDARITY LLC

$41,597

Produce documentary film.
SPIRIT TIDE LLC

$19,600

Produce documentary film.
TITLE 8 PRODUCTIONS LLC

$12,000

Produce documentary film.
PATOIS NO INT HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL

$8,943

Exhibit documentary film.
ROLEPLAY LLC

$8,489

Produce documentary film.
MY ASCENSION LLC

$6,192

Produce documentary film.

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2022
Filed: 15 May 2023
IRS schema version: 2022v5.0
Source object: 202311359349316396

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