FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

R99

Classification

1200

Street

105 W 125TH ST FRNT 1 # 129

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

• SINCE ITS INCEPTION, FIRELIGHT MEDIA HAS SUPPORTED 250+ DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS THROUGH OUR FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT PROGRAMS, 100+ DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS HAVE BEEN FUNDED THROUGH OUR DOCUMENTARY LAB, 40+ DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED, AND 15 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS HAVE BEEN CO-PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED FOR PUBLIC MEDIA IN RECENT YEARS.

  Expenses $5,501,035 · Grants $697,500 · Revenue $2,281,057

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

  $8,301,486

  Expenses

  $7,158,607

  Contributions

  $5,964,723

  Grants paid

  $697,500

• 2023

  Revenue

  $8,404,441

  Expenses

  $6,760,878

  Contributions

  $6,555,455

  Grants paid

  $568,500

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,880,020

  Expenses

  $7,420,004

  Contributions

  $7,400,624

  Grants paid

  $1,450,400

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,498,407

  Expenses

  $7,229,195

  Contributions

  $6,022,279

  Grants paid

  $1,450,400

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

  $11,068,950

  Expenses

  $6,298,174

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,935,667

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,054,390

  Expenses

  $3,730,046

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,388,103

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,367,580

  Expenses

  $3,184,737

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,045,732

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,963,000

  Expenses

  $2,697,119

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,541,103

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,798,681

  Expenses

  $2,502,324

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,403,298

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,830,256

  Expenses

  $2,050,349

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,992,733

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,646,176

  Expenses

  $2,839,710

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,020,352

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

• WILLIAM GREAVES PRODUCTIONS

  $96,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• CHIMPANZEE PRODUCTIONS INC

  $30,000

  2022 · SPARK FUND

• STEVE MAING FILMS INC

  $30,000

  2022 · SPARK FUND

• ABSTRACT NOMADIC MEDIA FVFK LLC

  $30,000

  2023 · IMPACT GRANT

• AFTER SPRING

  $30,000

  2023 · IMPACT GRANT

• THEINBETWEENFILM

  $30,000

  2023 · IMPACT GRANT

• UNSEEN DOCUMENTARY

  $30,000

  2023 · IMPACT GRANT

• CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY

  $30,000

  2023 · IMPACT GRANT

• LIFE LIFE

  $30,000

  2023 · IMPACT GRANT

• THE INSTRUMENT PROJECT LLC

  $27,500

  2024 · IMPACT GRANT

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $2,800,000

  2023 · TVPRG

• CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

  $2,200,000

  2023 · OSS

• UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

  $168,760

  2022 · CAPACITY GRANT

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $150,000

  2023 · FOR A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.

• PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS

  $30,000

  2023 · PIC SPECIAL PROJECT LICENSING FEE

• UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

  $28,876

  2023 · CAPACITY GRANT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $7,500

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

Other IRS files