Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $19,172,090
- Total expenses
- $14,892,536
- Contributions and grants received
- $17,436,105
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $10,081,803
- Management and general expenses
- $3,083,990
- Fundraising expenses
- $1,726,743
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $10,081,803
Program services were 67.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Listed in Part VII
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YOLANDA BENITEZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
SONYA ALLEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
KRISTIN DURAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
AJAMU KITWANA
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
SHAUN NELMS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
SANDEEP MANNAVA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
NICOLE VANGORDER
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
JOHN RICHARDSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
JULIO SAENZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
STEVE SULKES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
DAVID TANG
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
ROBERT ATTARDO
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
NORM SILVERSTEIN
PRESIDENT AND CEO (THRU 11/24)
- Total calculated
- $403,503
- From this org
- $336,321
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $67,182
- Hours/week
- 40 + 5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $315,869
- Bonus
- $9,054
- Other
- $11,398
- Deferred
- $39,055
- Nontaxable benefits
- $28,127
- Filer's total
- $403,503
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PATRICIA PHILIPS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
LAURIE HAELEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
DAAN BRAVEMAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
KAY BENJAMIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
CHRIS HASTINGS
PRESIDENT AND CEO (STARTING 11/24)
- Total calculated
- $47,876
- From this org
- $41,835
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,041
- Hours/week
- 40 + 5 related
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SUSAN ROGERS
EXECUTIVE VP & GENERAL MAN
- Total calculated
- $217,865
- From this org
- $186,168
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $31,697
- Hours/week
- 40 + 5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $186,168
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $30,000
- Nontaxable benefits
- $1,697
- Filer's total
- $217,865
-
LANCELOT THOMAS
CFO
- Total calculated
- $140,374
- From this org
- $108,699
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $31,675
- Hours/week
- 40 + 5 related
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KATHLEEN REED
VP OF DEVELOPMENT
- Total calculated
- $148,422
- From this org
- $113,839
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $34,583
- Hours/week
- 40
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ALISON JONES
DIRECTOR, COPORATE SPONSOR
- Total calculated
- $122,239
- From this org
- $112,860
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,379
- 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 — 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
- 1a · Health or social club dues or initiation fees
- 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
- 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
- 3 · Independent compensation consultant
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 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
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- PART I, LINE 3
- THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF WXXI MEETS ANNUALLY TO REVIEW THE PERFORMANCE AND COMPENSATION FOR THE PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. THE ASSESSMENT IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH TWO PRIMARY VEHICLES: THE CEO'S SELF EVALUATION AND WXXI'S FULL BOARD'S EVALUATION ON THE PRESIDENT'S COMPETENCIES AS CEO AS THEY RELATE TO OPERATIONAL, FINANCIAL, FUNDRAISING, AND STAFF/BOARD RELATIONS. EVERY FEW YEARS, AN EXTERNAL EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION PROGRAM IS OFFERED TO THE PRESIDENT & CEO. THE WXXI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ALSO REVIEWS THE COMPENSATION FOR OTHER OFFICERS AND KEY EMPLOYEES TO ENSURE THEIR COMPENSATION IS APPROPRIATE COMPARED WITH DATA COLLECTED FOR LIKE POSITIONS IN SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS. THE WXXI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DOES NOT ESTABLISH THE COMPENSATION LEVELS (THAT IS DONE BY THE PRESIDENT & CEO) BUT REVIEWS THESE OTHER EMPLOYEES' SALARY LEVELS FOR REASONABLENESS.
- PART I, LINE 4B
- NORM SILVERSTEIN RECEIVED $11,398 IN SECTION 457 DEFERRED COMPENSATION CONTRIBUTIONS.
- PART I, LINE 7
- A BONUS IS PAID TO THE CEO BASED UPON PERFORMANCE AND GOAL ACHIEVEMENT. THIS BONUS IS LIMITED BY THE CONTRACT AND APPROVED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
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.
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY
501(C)(3) · PROMOTE THE ART OF CINEMA TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC · NY
Directly controlled by WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 2 February 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.5
- Source object
- 202620349349300042
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