- Revenue 2024
- $154,049
- Expenses 2024
- $223,940
Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A20
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 804 WESTMORELAND AVE
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
Primary exempt purpose
CNY Film Professionals is dedicated to growing the capacity and inclusivity of Central New York's film, television, commercial, and video production industry. We achieve this via several strategies, including training new film professionals (ie., film crew), helping our crew members find work opportunities, and helping producers find crew and other resources for their productions.
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12-week training program for students of Syracuse City School District. That program, titled CALL TIME, culminated with apprenticeship opportunities on a professional short-film production.
Expenses $114,322 · Grants $72,500
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JOBS ON SET is a workforce development program for Central New York's film production industry, which includes movies, TV, commercials, videos, and new media.
Expenses $50,400 · Grants $50,000
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Our Professional Members get prioritized benefits of our all production resources like job notifications, listing in our searchable crew database and VIP access to special workshops and industry events.
Expenses $18,000 · Grants $12,994
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.
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Stephen Paunovski
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Andrew Lamirande
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Eric Jackson
Director
- Total calculated
- $12,014
- Compensation
- $12,014
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Alec Erlebacher
Director
- Total calculated
- $1,380
- Compensation
- $1,380
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Eric Vinal
Ex-Officio
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Owen Shapiro
Ex-Officio
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Elias Gwinn
President
- Total calculated
- $90,000
- Compensation
- $90,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $154,049
- Expenses
- $223,940
- Contributions
- $145,796
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2023
- Revenue
- $159,239
- Expenses
- $151,221
- Contributions
- $156,549
- Grants paid
- not reported
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023
- Tax period
- 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
- Principal officer
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Elias Gwinn
- Mailing address
- 804 Westmoreland AveSyracuse NY 13210
- Website
- www.CNYfilm.com
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
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
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2023 Support of music programs for patients at the Golisano Childrens Hospital, VA Hospital, and Upstate Cancer programs
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$7,994
2023 Arts & Culture
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.