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VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA

EIN 23-7108393 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,995,647
Expenses 2024
$1,577,797

Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V35Z
Classification
1200
Street
120 JUDGE JOHN AISO STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT THE VOICES OF ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER FILMMAKERS AND MEDIA ARTISTS WHO EMPOWER COMMUNITIES AND CHALLENGE PERSPECTIVES.

  • FISCAL SPONSORSHIP - THE ORGANZIATION SUPPORTS FILM PROJECTS AND PRODUCTIONS, PROVIDING ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND OVERSIGHT TO THE ACTIVITIES OF ARTISTS AND INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED IN WORK THAT FURTHERS THE MISSION.

    Expenses $592,179 · Grants $619,144

  • FILM FEST (PRESENTATION) - THE LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL IS AN 8-DAY SHOWCASE OF ASIAN AMERICAN FILMMAKERS THAT TAKES PLACE EVERY MAY IN LOS ANGELES AND SCREENS OVER 150 FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

    Expenses $366,989 · Revenue $294,648

  • PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL PHOTOS - THE ORGANIZATION HOLDS AN EXTENSIVE REPOSITORY OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS AND MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVES.

    Expenses $234,933 · Revenue $357,271

  • ARMED WITH A CAMERA (TRAINING) - THE "ARMED WITH A CAMERA" FELLOWSHIP IS A 7-MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM FOR UP TO 10 EMERGRING FILMMAKERS PER YEAR DEDICATED TO HELPING THEM PRODUCE A 5-MINUTE ORIGINAL SHORT FILM.

    Expenses $45,764 · Revenue $60,912

  • C3 CONFERENCE - IS AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO EXPLORING THE CHANGING NATURE OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA AND ALLOWS AUDIENCES TO CONNECT WITH ASIAN AMERICAN TALENT THROUGH PANELS AND SEMINARS.

    Expenses $31,548 · Revenue $32,500

  • DIGITAL HISTORIES - IS A MECHANISM FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN (APA) SENIORS TO USE THEIR UNIQUE VOICES AND PERSPECTIVE IN SHARING STORIES WITH THE GENERATIONS TO COME. THIS PROGRAM SEEKS TO ENGAGE THE UNDER- AND MISREPRESENTED POPULATION OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN A VISIBLE WAY. IT ALLOWS FOR THE EXHIBITION OF THESE FILMS TO EDUCATE VIEWERS ABOUT APA HISTORY IN CALIFORNIA AND TO ILLUMINATE HOW IT HELPS SHAPE IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $14,093 · Revenue $12,600

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • FRANCIS CULLADO

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $100,500
    From this org
    $100,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • CLAYTON YEUNG

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GERLIE COLLADO

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS AIHARA

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHUONG BUI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FAITH SANTILLA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHIL YU

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID KWAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WALT LOUIE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • IOSEFA AINA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER DEHAU LEE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY DELA CRUZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JODI LONG

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,995,647
    Expenses
    $1,577,797
    Contributions
    $1,268,481
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,169,936
    Expenses
    $1,325,754
    Contributions
    $1,004,888
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,036,459
    Expenses
    $985,915
    Contributions
    $940,307
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,498,860
    Expenses
    $799,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,570,454

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $698,241
    Expenses
    $608,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $848,933

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $904,777
    Expenses
    $805,702
    Assets (EOY)
    $595,754

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $637,515
    Expenses
    $656,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $524,223

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $527,352
    Expenses
    $577,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $351,209

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $660,138
    Expenses
    $537,301
    Assets (EOY)
    $384,477

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,668
    Expenses
    $442,249
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,449

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $628,983
    Expenses
    $771,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $267,646

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $580,685
    Expenses
    $643,001
    Assets (EOY)
    $636,304

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $603,866
    Assets (EOY)
    $534,304

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • JINS EYEWEAR US INC.

    $1,000 in sales

    2020 Commercial Coventurer

    $1,000 to charity

  • JINS EYEWEAR US INC.

    $500 in sales

    2019 Commercial Coventurer

    $500 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.