Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$275,290

Total expenses

$114,707

Contributions and grants received

$262,040

Grants paid

$2,425

Program service revenue

$13,250

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$185,541

Total liabilities, end of year

$428

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$185,113

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$87,324

Management and general expenses

$27,383

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$87,324

Program services were 76.1% 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

• BFMC+/KEMBLE STREET STUDIOS: WE CONTINUED WORK ON OUR INTIATIVE TO BUILD AN INTERNATIONAL FILM EDUCATION CENTER IN THE BERKSHIRES. WE WERE AWARDED $25,000 FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL FOR ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS AND ENGINEERING STUDIES FOR THE PROPOSED SPACE ON THE GROUNDS OF SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY IN LENOX, MA. WE HIRED AN ARCHITECTURAL FIRM, CLARK, GREEN & BEK FOR THE PROJECT.

  Expenses $20,447

• YOUTH FILM LAB: WE PARTNERED WITH THE BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND THE CIVIC LIFE PROJECT TO CREATE A YOUTH FILM LAB, WHERE STUDENTS MAKE FILMS IN THEIR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL SETTINGS. IT WAS PART OF BERKSHIRE TACONIC'S "BRIDGING DIVIDES/HEALING COMMUNITIES" INITIATIVE. YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE BERKSHIRE TACONIC REGION WERE INVITED TO MADE FILMS ON SOCIAL SUBJECTS THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO THEM. AFTER THE SCREENINGS, THE FILMMAKERS WERE JOINED BY LOCAL PROFESSIONALS WHO WORK WITH YOUTH TO DISCUSS THE FILMS AND THE TOPICS THEY COVERED.

  Expenses $20,098 · Revenue $13,250

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $2,425 · Grants $2,425

• PRODUCTION SERVICES: WE CONTINUE TO OFFER ASSISTANCE TO FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS FILMING IN THE BERKSHIRES FINDING LOCATIONS, AS WELL AS SERVICES SUCH AS CATERERS AND LODGING, AND A DATABASE TO HIRE LOCAL CREW AND TALENT. BERKSHIRE FILM AND OUR COMMUNITY: WE PARTNERED WITH THE BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AND PRODUCED A 'TEA TALK' AT THE MAHAIWE THEATER FEATURING AWARD WINNING LOCAL WOMEN FILMMAKERS: KAREN ALLEN, BARBARA KOPPLE AND CYNTHIA WADE. WE ALSO OFFERED A SEMINAR TO TEACHERS ON TEACHER DEVELOPMENT DAY TO BRING FILMMAKING INTO THEIR CLASSROOMS.

  Expenses $44,354

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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

7 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202403129349301120

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