- Revenue 2025
- $306,662
- Expenses 2025
- $303,968
Program services were 86.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 137 NORTH ST STE 200
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
THE BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE (BFMC) CREATES EDUCATIONAL, WORKFORCE AND PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FILM AND MEDIA INDUSTRY AS AN ECONOMIC INITIATIVE FOR THE WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS REGION.
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BFMC CONTINUED ITS MISSION THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, AND SUPPORT FOR LOCAL NONPROFIT AND FILM INITIATIVES. THROUGH ITS YOUTH FILM PROGRAM, BFMC PROVIDED STUDENTS IN LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH HANDS-ON FILMMAKING OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THEY LEARN TECHNICAL SKILLS, COLLABORATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. STUDENTS CREATED FILMS ADDRESSING SOCIAL ISSUES IMPORTANT TO THEM, FOLLOWED BY SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS WITH LOCAL YOUTH-SERVING PROFESSIONALS.BFMC ALSO CONTINUED ITS COMMUNITY FILM FUND, WHICH PROVIDES MATCHING GRANTS TO SMALLER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO CREATE VIDEOS FOR THEIR BRANDING, MARKETING, AND SOCIAL MEDIA.
Expenses $262,353 · Grants $13,000 · Revenue $931
As filed on the 2025 return.
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.
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Karen ZinkKAREN ZINK
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John Lawrence ReJOHN LAWRENCE RE
VICE CHAIR AND TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Chuck WalkerCHUCK WALKER
CLERK
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Marta KirsisMARTA KIRSIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Mark AvnetMARK AVNET
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Eric LevinERIC LEVIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Ronald FrohneRONALD FROHNE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Lawrence HazzardLAWRENCE HAZZARD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Jay IgnaszewskiJAY IGNASZEWSKI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Barbara NewmanBARBARA NEWMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Carl SpragueCARL SPRAGUE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Diane PearlmanDIANE PEARLMAN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $64,170
- From this org
- $64,170
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $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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2025
- Revenue
- $306,662
- Expenses
- $303,968
- Contributions
- $305,722
- Grants paid
- $13,000
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2024
- Revenue
- $255,346
- Expenses
- $248,998
- Contributions
- $254,851
- Grants paid
- $13,200
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2023
- Revenue
- $275,290
- Expenses
- $114,707
- Contributions
- $262,040
- Grants paid
- $2,425
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2022
- Revenue
- $110,400
- Expenses
- $109,494
- Contributions
- $109,900
- 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.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $179,445
- Expenses
- $170,757
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,091
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2020 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $34,500
- Expenses
- $57,598
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,178
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2019 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $108,125
- Expenses
- $79,969
- Assets (EOY)
- $38,025
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2018 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $84,531
- Expenses
- $76,887
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,869
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2017 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $77,663
- Expenses
- $88,218
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,506
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2016 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $114,019
- Expenses
- $110,405
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,265
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
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$5,000
2024 MATCHING GRANTS TO THE SMALLER NONPROFITS IN OUR COMMUNITY TO MAKE VIDEOS FOR THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA, BRANDING AND MARKETING.
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$5,000
2025 MATCHING GRANTS TO THE SMALLER NONPROFITS IN OUR COMMUNITY TO MAKE VIDEOS FOR THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA, BRANDING AND MARKETING.
Grants received
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$100,000
2023 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
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$100,000
2024 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2022 YOUTH FILM CHALLENGE
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2023 ARTS, CULTURE, AND HUMANITIES
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2024 ARTS, CULTURE, AND HUMANITIES
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.