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RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC

EIN 13-3995725 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$1,419,490
Expenses 2024
$1,157,400

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
2000
Street
235 BOWERY

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO CHAMPION BORN-DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE THROUGH COMMISSIONS, EXHIBITION, CRITICAL PUBLISHING, AND PRESERVATION PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PRESENT NEW MEDIA ART TO THE PUBLIC, FOSTER COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL DIALOGUE ABOUT NEW ART, AND TO PRESERVE MEDIA ART FOR THE FUTURE.

  • TO EXPOSE THE PUBLIC TO WORKS OF BOTH EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED MEDIA ARTISTS, THROUGH A WEBSITE, EMAIL LISTS AND PROGRAM EVENTS.

    Expenses $1,003,194 · Revenue $125,242

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Michael Connor

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $133,472
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,472
    Hours/week
    40
  • Makayla Bailey

    CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $221,308
    From this org
    $102,737
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $118,571
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lindsay Howard

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Fred Benenson

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Roumell

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jk Brown

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Renny Gleeson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William Palmer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Phillips

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Tribe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Wong

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Wotowicz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tracy Chou

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hillary Neve

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keith Obadike

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mendi Obadike

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Wong

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ron Rosenzweig

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Skawennati

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gabriel Whaley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dorothy Chou

    BOARD MEMBER

    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
    $1,419,490
    Expenses
    $1,157,400
    Contributions
    $1,249,190
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,422,746
    Expenses
    $1,156,656
    Contributions
    $1,299,109
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $923,010
    Expenses
    $1,292,390
    Contributions
    $733,908
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $821,964
    Expenses
    $1,210,294
    Contributions
    $741,790
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $882,002
    Expenses
    $1,312,087
    Contributions
    $787,676
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $756,974
    Expenses
    $1,211,908
    Contributions
    $731,464
    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
    $2,163,941
    Expenses
    $1,149,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,209,872
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $785,362
    Expenses
    $935,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,839
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $818,729
    Expenses
    $1,150,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $529,820
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $690,011
    Expenses
    $1,345,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $621,724
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,702,771
    Expenses
    $1,235,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,281,770
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $551,966
    Expenses
    $865,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $825,303
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,462,022
    Expenses
    $496,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,114,543
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $546,392
    Expenses
    $460,302
    Assets (EOY)
    $188,768
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,025
    Expenses
    $425,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,315
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $402,962
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,019

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.