CATCHLIGHT

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A40

Classification

1000

Street

1150 25TH ST

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

4 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.

• ART FOUNDATION

  EIN 83-1205647

• MINNESOTA STREET PROJECT FOUNDATION

  EIN 83-3859484

• RAPPAPORT FAMILY FOUNDATION

  EIN 20-0433083

• SAN FRANCISCO ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION

  EIN 23-7416271

Mission and programs · 2024

• CatchLight's Local Program works to build a local news ecosystem that is thriving in communities across the US, where everyone sees themselves represented in their local media, and where social cohesion and trust is rebuilt. Our approach to this work is three-pronged: We partner with newsrooms through a collaborative Visual Desk, offering customized visual services, tools, mentorship, and support to strengthen newsrooms capacity to serve as trusted messengers in their communities; We advance trust and representation in local journalism by placing high-quality, community-driven photojournalists in local newsrooms throughout the US; and We convene the public like-minded people across media, academia, technology, and the arts to foster a robust and inclusive community to deepen critical thought, imagine new ways to leverage visuals for connection, and inspire action. In 2024, through the Visual Desk we supported the production of 1,114 local news stories, collectively reaching an audience of more than 546,000 people each month. Our Local Fellows and newsroom partners continued to push the boundaries of visual storytelling, earning nine awards and twelve nominations for their work. We expanded our reach and training efforts through 10 educational workshops attended by over 200 journalists, and through public programs that brought together more than 1,500 people to engage directly with the power of visual journalism.

  Expenses $1,483,988 · Revenue $289,250

• On April 27, 2024, CatchLight held its 5th annual Visual Storytelling Summit, our signature event connecting artists, innovators, and audiences. Our theme was "Seeing Truths," reflecting the unique power of photography, visual journalism, and creative practices can have to help usher a return to critical thinking. The goal of the Summit is to build an inclusive network, centering CatchLight and our partners as leaders in a relevant, future-facing, diverse, inclusive, and community-building space. As always, the Summit was free and open to the public, inviting audiences of all kinds to connect with a global community of visual storytellers, media, and technology leaders. The event sold out three weeks after the launch and exceeded our targets-and last year's numbers-with 450 registrants and 300 attendees. This year's Summit gathered leaders using photography, art, film, and technology to discuss how the rise of synthetic images undermines our ability to trust what we see and what the role of visual storytellers and journalists is in ushering a return to critical thinking and cooperation.

  Expenses $746,542 · Grants $29,750 · Revenue $36,633

• The CatchLight Global Fellowship supports innovative leaders leveraging visual storytelling to inspire human connection and ignite social change by providing two-year grants for long-form storytelling projects. Since 2017, CatchLight has awarded $30,000 to 26 innovative visual storytellers covering a multitude of topics from all over the world. From working with Indigenous women fighting to defend their land and promote rainforest conservation in Ecuador to documenting the racial divide and reclamation of Black history more than 100 years after a race massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, to recording the civilian experiences of war in eastern Ukraine, CatchLight 2024 Global Fellows Harlan Bozeman, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, and Johanna Alarcon are leaders who are leveraging the power of visual storytelling to inform the world, connect and transform their communities.

  Expenses $297,684 · Grants $81,000

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,711,054

  Expenses

  $3,287,416

  Contributions

  $3,369,722

  Grants paid

  $110,750

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,124,440

  Expenses

  $2,461,774

  Contributions

  $2,808,695

  Grants paid

  $59,500

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,112,098

  Expenses

  $1,921,392

  Contributions

  $1,085,105

  Grants paid

  $85,500

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

  $3,095,707

  Expenses

  $1,315,620

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,559,579

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,196,301

  Expenses

  $975,689

  Assets (EOY)

  $688,072

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,016,065

  Expenses

  $974,813

  Assets (EOY)

  $381,997

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $961,528

  Expenses

  $752,116

  Assets (EOY)

  $321,958

• 2016 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $262,719

  Expenses

  $283,354

  Assets (EOY)

  $267,822

• 2014 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $671,288

  Expenses

  $578,903

  Assets (EOY)

  $128,195

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.

Grants made

• Eye and I Inc

  $21,000

  2022 · Global Fellowship Award

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $585,867

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $528,000

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $300,250

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $257,000

  2023 · Arts & Culture

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $252,875

  2024 · Arts & Culture

• DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2022 · Arts & Culture

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $66,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

  $50,600

  2024 · MENTAL HEALTH REPORTING INITIATIVE - CATCHLIGHT

• DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

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

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