Public Charity

CAMERA NEWS INC

CAMERA NEWS INC, of NEW YORK, NY, is a Public Charity tracked in Imperigo's IRS 990 database. The 2025 filing shows $1.2M in revenue, $1.2M in expenses, $2.3M in total assets. 30 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $1.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 132624257 NEW YORK, NY Film & Video NTEE: A31 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$1.2M
Total Expenses$1.2M
Total Assets$2.3M
Grant Records30
Funding Total$1.1M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

CAMERA NEWS, INC. DBA THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL TWN IS A NONPROFIT ALTERNATIVE MEDIA ARTS ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN 1967 THAT FOSTERS THE CREATION, APPRECIATION, DISSEMINATION AND PRESERVATION OF INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO BY AND ABOUT PEOPLE OF COLOR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES.

Where $100 goes at Camera News Inc

How Camera News Inc divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 6 years.

$93 Programs the work itself
$7 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $93 for programs

$93
Distribution and preservation of educational films and videos, providing workshops and training programs for low income and disadvantaged students of film and video, as well as producing educational…
All program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

BOARD MEMBER Afua Kafi Akua
BOARD MEMBER Betty Yu
CO-CHAIR Dorothy Thigpen
BOARD MEMBER Joel Katz
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Orinne Jt Takagi
CO-CHAIR Seymour Burgess

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$603,188 13 grants
Arts & Culture
$278,970 7 grants
Fundraising & Sponsorship
$65,000 5 grants
Research & Policy
$35,000 1 grant
Unspecified
$134,000 4 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $1.2M $1.2M $2.3M
2024 $1.6M $956K $2.2M
2023 $1.7M $1.2M $1.7M
2022 $1.6M $1.5M $1.1M
2021 $1.3M $959K $939K

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue declined from $1.3M to $1.2M (-7%), with total assets most recently reported at $2.3M.

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