Form 990 for tax year 2022

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2022 , filed 27 March 2025. matched by us Only the Part I totals and the names listed in Part VII are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue

$7,880,020 →changed to $6,498,407

Total expenses

$7,420,004 →changed to $7,229,195

Contributions and grants received

$7,400,624 →changed to $6,022,279

Program service revenue

$400,000 →changed to $471,550

Other revenue

$74,818 →changed to $0

Total assets, end of year

$14,967,738 →changed to $14,906,498

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,998,442 →changed to $2,039,117

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$12,969,296 →changed to $12,867,381

Program services expenses

$5,840,231 →changed to $5,618,589

Management and general expenses

$1,238,481 →changed to $1,285,755

Fundraising expenses

$341,292 →changed to $324,851

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,840,231 →changed to $5,618,589

Totals

Total revenue

$7,880,020

Total expenses

$7,420,004

Contributions and grants received

$7,400,624

Grants paid

$1,450,400

Program service revenue

$400,000

Investment income

$4,578

Other revenue

$74,818

Total assets, end of year

$14,967,738

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,998,442

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$12,969,296

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,840,231

Management and general expenses

$1,238,481

Fundraising expenses

$341,292

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,840,231

Program services were 78.7% 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 · 2022

• SUPPORTED BY CPB SINCE 2014, THE DOCUMENTARY LAB HAS BECOME THE EPICENTER OF FIRELIGHT MEDIA'S NETWORK OF PROGRAMS AND EVENTS SUPPORTING DIVERSE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS, INCLUDING THE GROUNDWORK REGIONAL LAB, WHICH LAUNCHED IN 2017 WITH CPB FUNDING TO SUPPORT EARLY CAREER DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS LIVING AND WORKING IN UNDERREPRESENTED REGIONS OF THE U.S., AND THE FRONTLINE/FIRELIGHT FELLOWSHIP FOR INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS, WHICH BEGAN IN 2018 AND IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY CPB. FIRELIGHT MEDIA-SUPPORTED FILMMAKERS HAVE PRODUCED SHORT FILMS ON EMERGING ARTISTS OF COLOR FOR "IN THE MAKING", A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN FIRELIGHT MEDIA AND PBS AMERICAN MASTERS; AND "HINDSIGHT", A SERIES OF SHORT FILMS MADE IN 2020 BY BIPOC FILMMAKERS LIVING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND PUERTO RICO, WHICH MARKED A FIRST-TIME PARTNERSHIP AMONG FIRELIGHT, THE CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA, REEL SOUTH, WORLD CHANNEL AND PUBLIC TELEVISION STATIONS. THE $4 MILLION FROM CPB REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 33% IN FUNDING. TOGETHER WITH $1.5 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING FROM PBS, THE GRANT WILL ALLOW FOR EXPANSION AND INTEGRATION OF FIRELIGHT MEDIA'S THREE KEY ARTISTS SUPPORT PROGRAMS: THE FIRELIGHT DOCUMENTARY LAB, FIRELIGHT MEDIA'S FLAGSHIP 18-MONTH MENTORING PROGRAM, WHICH SUPPORTS FILMMAKERS FROM A PROJECT'S CONCEPTION THROUGH ITS COMPLETION, WILL EXPAND THE NUMBER OF FILMMAKERS IN EACH COHORT. GROUNDWORK REGIONAL LAB WILL SERVE 40 EARLY CAREER FILMMAKERS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL STATIONS. DIGITAL SHORT FILMS WILL BE COMMISSIONED FROM DOCUMENTARY LAB AND GROUNDWORK FELLOWS OR ALUMNI AND OTHER REGIONAL BIPOC FILMMAKERS FOR THE PBS SYSTEM.

  Expenses $5,840,231 · Grants $1,450,400 · Revenue $471,550

As filed on the 2022 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. 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

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

• CHIMPANZEE PRODUCTIONS INC

  $30,000

  SPARK FUND

• STEVE MAING FILMS INC

  $30,000

  SPARK FUND

• GOOD PICTURE INC

  $27,000

  GREAVES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

• INDIGO FILMS LLC

  $27,000

  GREAVES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

• NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

  $27,000

  GREAVES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

• PROMISED LAND FILM

  $27,000

  GREAVES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

• SEEKER FILMS LLC

  $25,000

  DOCUMENTARY LAB

• UNIT 6 PRODUCTIONS LLC

  $25,000

  DOCUMENTARY LAB

• UNTITLED DISABILITY CULTURE LLC

  $25,000

  DOCUMENTARY LAB

• WHAT WILL I BECOME LLC

  $25,000

  DOCUMENTARY LAB

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

15 August 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202412289349300521

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