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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by THE ALLIANCE FOR MEDIA ARTS - CULTURE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$558,488
Total expenses
$510,457
Contributions and grants received
$362,718
Grants paid
$14,300
Program service revenue
$195,503
Investment income
$267
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$432,027
Total liabilities, end of year
$70,730
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$361,297
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$416,774
Management and general expenses
$69,726
Fundraising expenses
$23,957
Program service expenses (Part III)
$416,774

Program services were 81.6% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $7,500

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $355,218

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Consulting

    total $173,800 · related or exempt $173,800

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Fiscal Sponsorship Ser

    total $21,703 · related or exempt $21,703

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $267 · excluded $267

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $14,300 · program services $14,300

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $142,012 · program services $104,606 · management and general $18,851 · fundraising $18,555

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $10,810 · program services $8,132 · management and general $1,233 · fundraising $1,445

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $41,671 · program services $896 · management and general $40,775

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $211,338 · program services $209,988 · fundraising $1,350

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,607 · program services $2,607

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,040 · program services $4,948 · management and general $2,067 · fundraising $25

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $36,205 · program services $36,205

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $1,407 · program services $1,283 · management and general $124

  • 17 · Travel

    total $18,787 · program services $16,205 · fundraising $2,582

  • 20 · Interest

    total $4,461 · management and general $4,461

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $2,215 · management and general $2,215

  • 24a · Other expenses: Honorarium

    total $11,600 · program services $11,600

  • 24b · Other expenses: Arts2Work Fund Contribu

    total $4,395 · program services $4,395

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,609 · program services $1,609

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $189,223 · end of year $42,326

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $186,210 · end of year $300,802

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $9,000 · end of year $72,500

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $7,920

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $7,096 · end of year $7,372

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

    $21,790

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

    $20,683

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,322 · end of year $1,107

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $10,240 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $91,825 · end of year $23,942

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $16,147

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $30,641

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $101,607 · end of year $135,954

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $211,659 · end of year $225,343

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Alliance leads national programs in media arts, digital equity, and emerging technologies.

  • Arts2Work: Arts2Work is a creative workforce initiative sponsored by The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, winner of the MIT SOLVE Prize for Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the US. Arts2Work includes the very first federally-registered National Apprenticeship program in Media Arts + Creative Technologies, including new career pipelines for Multimedia Producers, Digital Video Editors and Multimedia Graphic Designers. It provides new infrastructure, equity and economic sustainability for artists and creative workers, businesses, organizations, communities and institutions across the US. Arts2Work prioritizes equity and inclusion with special outreach to BIPOC, low-income workers, women, youth, veterans and disabled communities. (Continued on Schedule O)The ecosystem of Arts2Work includes a national network of Creative Studios and Training Centers, Pre-Apprenticeship programs that include paid learn-on-the-job experiences, Registered Apprenticeship, Advanced Apprenticeship Labs and an online Learning Hub with free tutorials, networking and access to mentorship for anyone seeking to build a career in media. The Alliance sponsors Arts2Work-affiliated programs in Baltimore, Albany, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas, Oakland, Colorado Springs, and Watts, with others on the way. https://arts2work.media/

    Expenses $272,011 · Grants $14,300 · Revenue $192,108

  • General Program and Conference: Under General Program services, we offer a Digital Resource Library, an online Screening Room, the Storytelling Matters Blog, a Job Board. A monthly E-Bulletin and an Arts2Work Newsletter. We also offer a limited Fiscal Sponsorship program for invited projects that align with the Alliance mission. We are currently the fiscal sponsors for a groundbreaking documentary film about slavery and reparations in America entitled Acts of Reparation, by award-winning filmmakers Macky Alston and Selina Davidson. We also use General Program for pilot programs that serve the media arts field that do not yet fall under existing program headings.

    Expenses $142,641 · Revenue $3,395

  • Innovation Studio: The Innovation Studio program supports the development of unique interactive digital media projects, platforms, tools and approaches to storytelling designed to foster strong, resilient creative communities. We think in systems, build replicable models, and take risks with new technology. Our teams are diverse, intergenerational and collaborative. Strategy, design, development, and prototyping in the Alliance Innovation Studio is customized uniquely for each project. We bring together a team of creative and tech experts based on the needs of the project; the central requirement for inclusion in the Innovation Studio is a commitment to sharing out the development process with the field and making the project available for replication (Continued on Schedule O)in diverse communities and contexts. In every case, we will publish the code, share the data and provide templates or toolkits to enable meaningful and effective adoption. Projects developed in the Innovation Studio include the Open Archive Initiative, Alliance XR Gallery and Futures We Dream, a national creative collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.

    Expenses $2,122

  • Youth Media Network: The Alliance Youth Media Network programs convene, connect, nurture and sustain strategic development in the Youth Media field. We support innovative and emerging models of practice within the fields of youth media, creative youth development, and media literacy. We do this through the collaborative production of a youth media magazine, ongoing Collective Action work, hosting national Video Roundtables and a global Youth Media Summit, mentoring a cohort of Youth Media Fellows each year, and supporting the leaders of a national network of youth media organizations. All of the programs of our Youth Media Network use an intergenerational, co-creative approach as a means to demonstrate the possibilities and impact of a range of youth and elders working collaboratively and inclusively, interrogating power and privilege across program areas, with the goal of providing new models and emerging practices for the field.

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Chris Johnson

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Doversberger

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anula Shetty

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Frye

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kasandra VerBrugghen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Tahui An

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andy Beach

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cassidy Arkin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edgar Burch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Levy

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $142,012
    From this org
    $131,869
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,143
    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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
11 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403189349300245

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