Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,711,054
- Total expenses
- $3,287,416
- Contributions and grants received
- $3,369,722
- Grants paid
- $110,750
- Program service revenue
- $325,883
- Investment income
- $34,742
- Other revenue
- -$19,293
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,769,814
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $198,417
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $2,571,397
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,528,214
- Management and general expenses
- $416,294
- Fundraising expenses
- $342,908
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,528,214
Program services were 76.9% 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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1c · Fundraising events
$114,876
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$3,254,846
-
2a · Program service revenue: Contract Revenue
total $231,118 · related or exempt $231,118
-
2b · Program service revenue: Creative Services
total $94,765 · related or exempt $94,765
-
3 · Investment income
total $34,742 · excluded $34,742
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$13,750
-
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$114,876
-
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$33,043
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total -$19,293
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11a · Other revenue: Other Income
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $42,000 · program services $42,000
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $68,750 · program services $68,750
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $336,440 · program services $285,974 · management and general $16,822 · fundraising $33,644
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,358,375 · program services $992,190 · management and general $133,313 · fundraising $232,872
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $32,310 · program services $23,075 · management and general $1,404 · fundraising $7,831
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $173,964 · program services $88,056 · management and general $65,584 · fundraising $20,324
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $125,794 · program services $93,434 · management and general $11,331 · fundraising $21,029
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $578,623 · program services $428,773 · management and general $139,370 · fundraising $10,480
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $98,500 · program services $69,054 · management and general $26,172 · fundraising $3,274
-
14 · Information technology
total $52,880 · program services $43,629 · management and general $6,100 · fundraising $3,151
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $45,910 · program services $37,275 · management and general $2,911 · fundraising $5,724
-
17 · Travel
total $140,526 · program services $134,860 · management and general $3,977 · fundraising $1,689
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $84,064 · program services $79,188 · management and general $2,012 · fundraising $2,864
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $1,030 · program services $206 · management and general $798 · fundraising $26
-
23 · Insurance
total $0
-
24a · Other expenses: Exhibition & event expenses
total $105,541 · program services $105,541
-
24b · Other expenses: Photography & film production
total $36,209 · program services $36,209
-
24c · Other expenses: Bad debt
total $6,500 · management and general $6,500
-
24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $828,578 · end of year $120,132
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $874,789 · end of year $1,765,998
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $58,656 · end of year $5,534
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $30,952 · end of year $72,535
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$22,105
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$21,933
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $1,202 · end of year $172
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $502,059 · end of year $805,443
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $143,229 · end of year $190,944
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $5,248 · end of year $7,473
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $698,082 · end of year $161,569
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,449,677 · end of year $2,409,828
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
CatchLight is a hybrid nonprofit media organization combining the practices of art, journalism and social justice. We are a transformational force, urgently bringing resources and organizations together to nurture and grow a thriving visual ecosystem. We leverage the power of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities.
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CatchLight's Local Program works to build a local news ecosystem that is thriving in communities across the US, where everyone sees themselves represented in their local media, and where social cohesion and trust is rebuilt. Our approach to this work is three-pronged: We partner with newsrooms through a collaborative Visual Desk, offering customized visual services, tools, mentorship, and support to strengthen newsrooms capacity to serve as trusted messengers in their communities; We advance trust and representation in local journalism by placing high-quality, community-driven photojournalists in local newsrooms throughout the US; and We convene the public like-minded people across media, academia, technology, and the arts to foster a robust and inclusive community to deepen critical thought, imagine new ways to leverage visuals for connection, and inspire action. In 2024, through the Visual Desk we supported the production of 1,114 local news stories, collectively reaching an audience of more than 546,000 people each month. Our Local Fellows and newsroom partners continued to push the boundaries of visual storytelling, earning nine awards and twelve nominations for their work. We expanded our reach and training efforts through 10 educational workshops attended by over 200 journalists, and through public programs that brought together more than 1,500 people to engage directly with the power of visual journalism.
Expenses $1,483,988 · Revenue $289,250
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On April 27, 2024, CatchLight held its 5th annual Visual Storytelling Summit, our signature event connecting artists, innovators, and audiences. Our theme was "Seeing Truths," reflecting the unique power of photography, visual journalism, and creative practices can have to help usher a return to critical thinking. The goal of the Summit is to build an inclusive network, centering CatchLight and our partners as leaders in a relevant, future-facing, diverse, inclusive, and community-building space. As always, the Summit was free and open to the public, inviting audiences of all kinds to connect with a global community of visual storytellers, media, and technology leaders. The event sold out three weeks after the launch and exceeded our targets-and last year's numbers-with 450 registrants and 300 attendees. This year's Summit gathered leaders using photography, art, film, and technology to discuss how the rise of synthetic images undermines our ability to trust what we see and what the role of visual storytellers and journalists is in ushering a return to critical thinking and cooperation.
Expenses $746,542 · Grants $29,750 · Revenue $36,633
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The CatchLight Global Fellowship supports innovative leaders leveraging visual storytelling to inspire human connection and ignite social change by providing two-year grants for long-form storytelling projects. Since 2017, CatchLight has awarded $30,000 to 26 innovative visual storytellers covering a multitude of topics from all over the world. From working with Indigenous women fighting to defend their land and promote rainforest conservation in Ecuador to documenting the racial divide and reclamation of Black history more than 100 years after a race massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, to recording the civilian experiences of war in eastern Ukraine, CatchLight 2024 Global Fellows Harlan Bozeman, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, and Johanna Alarcon are leaders who are leveraging the power of visual storytelling to inform the world, connect and transform their communities.
Expenses $297,684 · Grants $81,000
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Elodie Mailliet Storm
CEO
- Total calculated
- $336,440
- From this org
- $286,728
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $49,712
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $237,021
- Bonus
- $49,707
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $13,951
- Nontaxable benefits
- $35,761
- Filer's total
- $336,440
-
Erica Garber
VP of Development
- Total calculated
- $219,923
- From this org
- $184,723
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $35,200
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $161,233
- Bonus
- $23,490
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $9,001
- Nontaxable benefits
- $26,199
- Filer's total
- $219,923
-
Jennifer Stratton
Executive Editor
- Total calculated
- $195,028
- From this org
- $178,730
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,298
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $164,669
- Bonus
- $14,061
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $8,332
- Nontaxable benefits
- $7,966
- Filer's total
- $195,028
-
Mazher Ali
Director of Comm.
- Total calculated
- $160,175
- From this org
- $143,836
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,339
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $130,735
- Bonus
- $13,101
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $6,701
- Nontaxable benefits
- $9,638
- Filer's total
- $160,175
-
Adriana Garcia
Chief of Staff
- Total calculated
- $134,397
- From this org
- $120,506
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,891
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Deirdre Atkin Hockett
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Umbreen Bhatti
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Nancy Farese
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Lisa Kleiner Chanoff
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Christopher Michel
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Shazna Nessa
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Mike Ramsay
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Robert J Rosenthal
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Alan Marks
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Jim Bildner
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
-
Amanda Minami
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
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
- 2024
- Filed
- 4 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202503089349302735
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