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SERIESFEST

EIN 82-2457698 DENVER, CO

Revenue 2024
$1,609,142
Expenses 2024
$1,919,293

Program services were 76.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1200
Street
1550 WEWATTA STREET SUITE 820

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

Mission

SERIESFEST IS A YEAR-ROUND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING THE ART OF EPISODIC STORYTELLING.

  • SERIESFEST CHAMPIONS AND EMPOWERS ARTISTS AT THE FOREFRONT OF EPISODIC STORYTELLING BY PROVIDING YEAR-ROUND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CREATORS AND INDUSTRY EXPERTS TO CONNECT, COLLABORATE, AND SHARE STORIES WHICH INSPIRE AND IMPACT GLOBAL AUDIENCES. IN ADDITION, SERIESFEST HAS CREATED AND ADMINISTERS EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT STRIVE TO INSPIRE AND CELEBRATE THE VOICE INSIDE OF EVERY STUDENT AND BREAK DOWN BARRIERS THAT LIMIT ACCESS BOTH IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. WE ARE COMMITTED TO LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD, WITH THE GOAL OF ELEVATING THE PRODUCTIONS AND CONTENT WE PROMOTE TO REFLECT THE DIVERSITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $1,461,057 · Grants $44,780 · Revenue $381,914

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.

  • RANDI KLEINER

    CEO/CO-FOUND

    Total calculated
    $139,155
    From this org
    $129,677
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,478
    Hours/week
    40

  • BETSY LEIGHTON

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ROBERT LEIGHTON

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRITTA ERICKSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • STEVE SWOBODA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • NATALIE WEST

    CHAIR OF GOV

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KRISTA SMITH

    DIRECTOR EME

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JONATHAN ALPERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHERI BARNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • TOM CUNHA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CAZ MATTHEWS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KAILY SMITH WESTBROOK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARK LOHMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JAMES LINDSAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JENNY BLOOM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ALI MILLICE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • TULLY BRAGG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRYANT PALMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KEN ROTHSTEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • YVETTE FRAMPTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PAULETTE TATE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JIM JANICEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $1,609,142
    Expenses
    $1,919,293
    Contributions
    $1,168,384
    Grants paid
    $44,780
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,450,068
    Expenses
    $1,614,400
    Contributions
    $1,280,486
    Grants paid
    $33,750
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,747,785
    Expenses
    $2,232,094
    Contributions
    $1,137,810
    Grants paid
    $52,000

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
    $1,745,266
    Expenses
    $2,236,075
    Assets (EOY)
    $743,501

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,802,213
    Expenses
    $1,010,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,300,537

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $865,017
    Expenses
    $950,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $476,119

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,854,045
    Expenses
    $1,439,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $655,064

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

Where these grants went next →

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.