Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$141,544

Total expenses

$200,986

Contributions and grants received

$136,760

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$4,784

Total assets, end of year

$149,348

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,061

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$146,287

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$129,525

Management and general expenses

$71,461

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$129,525

Program services were 64.4% 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 · 2023

• IN 2023, A CLOSER LOOK SPENT $61,430 ON DIRECT PROJECT EXPENSES. OF THAT, A CLOSER LOOK SPENT $7.2K ON EDITING AND FORMATTING OF OUR DOCUMENTARY FEATURE "CHILDREN OF THE INQUISITION" FOR ITS RELEASE ON PUBLIC TELEVISION THROUGH NETA. THESE FURTHER EDITS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE FILM TO BE RELEASED NATIONWIDE ON TELEVISION AND ON PBS ONLINE IN BOTH A FULL AND TWO PART VERSION. ADDITIONALLY, $30.02K HAVE BEEN SPENT ON MARKETING, ADVERTISING, AND PRESS FOR CHILDREN OF THE INQUISITION. 2023 WAS AN EVENTFUL YEAR FOR CHILDREN OF THE INQUISITION, BETWEEN THE DEBUT ON PUBLIC TELEVISION AND PBS ONLINE AS WELL AS ITS SCREENING AT ITS FIRST CATHOLIC VENUE AT THE FULTON J SHEEN CENTER. A LOT OF MATERIALS WERE DEDICATED TO ITS PROMOTION AND DISTRIBUTION. $15K OF OUR TOTAL COST OF GOODS SOLD CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PRODUCTION AND ANIMATION OF OUR NEW ANIMATED FILM ON CONNECTING WITH YOUR INNER-CHILD, "MEDITATION ON A SHOESTRING." $25K WAS DONATED BY STEVE KIRKHAM IN FEBRUARY OF 2023 TOWARDS THIS FILM AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT SINCE. IN ADDITION TO THE ANIMATION, WE HAVE DEDICATED THE DONATED FUNDS TO MUSIC COMPOSITION AND EDITING AS WELL AS WE MOVE CLOSER TO THE FINAL PRODUCT. "MEDITATION ON A SHOESTRING" IS COMING ALONG NICELY AND FOLLOWS THE LEGACY OF "SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENED TO JOEY." IT IS ANOTHER ANIMATED SHORT THAT UTILIZES ITS VISUALS AND NARRATIVE METAPHOR TO MANIFEST FEELINGS THAT CAN BE DIFFICULT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONFRONT. AROUND $1.66K HAVE BEEN SPENT ON DEVELOPING AND UPDATING WEBSITES FOR THE ORGANIZATIONS AND ITS PROJECTS SUCH AS "GOING BLIND."THE REST OF A CLOSER LOOK'S 2023 COST OF GOODS SOLD CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THINGS SUCH AS TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS RELATED TO PROJECTS, AN EXAMPLE BEING THE "SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENED TO JOEY" EVENT IN ALBANY AT THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM HOSTED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.A CLOSER LOOK SPENT AROUND $6.7K ON COMPUTER AND STREAMING RELATED EXPENSES SUCH AS OUR BUSINESS VIMEO, IMDB, BOOKKEEPING SOFTWARE, ETC. AROUND $84.8K WERE DIRECTED TOWARDS PAYROLL.$4.1K WERE SPENT ON OFFICE PHONE BILLS.

  Expenses $129,525

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

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

2023

Filed

10 July 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202412139349301736

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