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INEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION

EIN 81-5231180 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2025
$6,650,990
Expenses 2025
$4,716,143

Program services were 75.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R60
Classification
3000
Street
PO BOX 9323

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 · 2025

Mission

OUR ULTIMATE VISION IS ONE OF SOCIAL WELFARE REFLECTED IN A UNITED STATES WHERE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION BY INFORMED CITIZENS RESTORES THE BALANCE OF POWER IN OUR DEMOCRACY AND CREATES AN ECONOMY WHERE GAINS ARE WIDELY SHARED.

  • INEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION IMCA PRODUCES AND DISTRIBUTES EDUCATIONAL ONLINE VIDEOS, REACHING AUDIENCES ACROSS PLATFORMS WITH CLEAR, COMPELLING CONTENT ABOUT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, POLITICAL POWER, AND PUBLIC POLICY. IMCA VIDEOS PROVIDE BIG-PICTURE CONTEXT ON CURRENT EVENTS AND POLICY DEBATES, WITH TOPICS SPANNING INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY, HEALTHCARE, CORPORATE CONCENTRATION, CIVICS, AND ECONOMIC HISTORY. IN 2025, IMCA PRODUCED OVER 250 VIDEOS AND VIDEO PODCASTS. IMCA PARTNERS WITH ALIGNED ORGANIZATIONS TO EXTEND REACH ACROSS PLATFORMS AND AUDIENCES. IN 2025, IMCA RELEASED ITS FIRST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY, THE LAST CLASS, WHICH BECAME THE 5TH HIGHEST-GROSSING DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR. THE FILM REACHED AUDIENCES ACROSS 48 STATES THROUGH A DISTRIBUTION MODEL DEVELOPED ENTIRELY OUTSIDE TRADITIONAL CHANNELS, WITH THE MAJORITY OF VENUES EXTENDING OR HOLDING OVER THEIR INITIAL RUN. AS OF MAY 2026, THE FILM REMAINS IN THEATRICAL RELEASE, ELEVEN MONTHS AFTER OPENING, INCLUDING A STANDOUT 9-WEEK ENGAGEMENT AT THE QUAD CINEMA IN NEW YORK CITY. CONTINUED IN SCH O

    Expenses $3,558,149 · Revenue $457,642

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • HEATHER KINLAW LOFTHOUSE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $276,237
    From this org
    $113,818
    From related orgs
    $133,874
    Other
    $28,545
    Hours/week
    18 + 22 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $113,818 + $133,874 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,117 + $15,428 related
    Filer's total
    $126,935 + $149,302 related

  • DAN DAVIS

    EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $189,545
    From this org
    $74,178
    From related orgs
    $87,250
    Other
    $28,117
    Hours/week
    18 + 22 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $74,178 + $87,250 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,920 + $15,197 related
    Filer's total
    $87,098 + $102,447 related

  • EMILY PAULOS

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $165,444
    From this org
    $66,433
    From related orgs
    $78,140
    Other
    $20,871
    Hours/week
    18 + 22 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $66,433 + $78,140 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,590 + $11,280 related
    Filer's total
    $76,023 + $89,420 related

  • MICHAEL LAHANAS-CALDERON

    CHIEF STRATEGIST

    Total calculated
    $140,926
    From this org
    $60,081
    From related orgs
    $70,668
    Other
    $10,177
    Hours/week
    18 + 22 related

  • KYLE PARKER

    HEAD OF CREATIVE

    Total calculated
    $132,371
    From this org
    $53,887
    From related orgs
    $63,382
    Other
    $15,102
    Hours/week
    18 + 22 related

  • ZOE BECK

    BOARD CHAIR TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • DOUG DWORKIN

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARYANNE MCCORMICK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $6,650,990
    Expenses
    $4,716,143
    Contributions
    $6,071,886
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,782,939
    Expenses
    $2,537,161
    Contributions
    $3,681,924
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,835,655
    Expenses
    $1,051,873
    Contributions
    $1,781,377
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,835,655
    Expenses
    $1,051,873
    Contributions
    $1,781,377
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,483,003
    Expenses
    $850,054
    Contributions
    $1,451,406
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,483,003
    Expenses
    $850,054
    Contributions
    $1,451,406
    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
    $1,000,379
    Expenses
    $430,822
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,192,912

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $997,686
    Expenses
    $596,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $908,013

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $676,874
    Expenses
    $374,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $338,486

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $106,000
    Expenses
    $235,369
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,376

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $60,100
    Expenses
    $28,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,019

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.

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

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.