2020-11-11T16:48:21-07:00 2019-12-31 460796445 Shining Star Consulting LLC 2320 Oak St Berkeley CA 94708 990 2019-01-01 271912845 CATCHLIGHT formerly PhotoPhilanthropy CATC 5106460210 1150 25th Street San Francisco CA 94107 Elodie Mailliet Executive Director 5106460210 2020-11-05 1 Monte Meyers P01067312 5109996712 2020-11-05 X 71.202.90.168 2019 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Nancy Richards Farese 1150 25th Street San Francisco CA 94107 1025575 0 X www.catchlight.io X 2010 CA CatchLight leverages the poser of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities. It acts as a catalyst bringing resources and networks together to foster a more nuanced and empathetic understanding of the world. It does so by supporting innovators in the field of visual arts. In 2019 it launched CatchLight Local, a new systemic approach to connecting visual artists with their communities and local news organizations to fulfill information needs. IT also holds an annual convening to move the visual field forward. 7 7 5 0 0 0 961261 979284 0 20053 0 0 267 16728 961528 1016065 90000 156000 0 0 325397 571840 0 0 79527 336719 246973 752116 974813 209412 41252 321958 381997 29145 47932 292813 334065 CatchLight leverages the poser of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities. It acts as a catalyst bringing resources and networks together to foster a more nuanced and empathetic understanding of the world. It does so by supporting innovators in the field of visual arts. In 2019 it launched CatchLight Local, a new systemic approach to connecting visual artists with their communities and local news organizations to fulfill information needs. IT also holds an annual convening to move the visual field forward. 0 0 804266 156000 0 CatchLight Fellowship: The CatchLight Fellowship serves as a form of incubator for innovative leaders working in visual storytelling. More than 320 artists, residing in 61 countries applied for the 2019 CatchLight fellowship, which was awarded to four innovative artist leaders: Alexandra Bell, Pierre Terdjman, Sparsh Ahuja and Tasneem Alsultan. CatchLight's projects have reached 100,000 people in-person and an estimated 90 million people through digital content. Fellows' work has been published in over 40 media outlets around the globe including National Geographic, The Washington Post and the New York Times and exhibited in more than 17 international exhibitions including the Nobel Peace Center, the Whitney Biennial and King Abdulaziz Center For World Culture. CatchLight Fellows have earned more than 20 awards including National Geographic Explorer, Artadia Chicago Awards, and Kaleidoscope Fund. More than 4,500 students learned about photography, media literacy, and democracy from photographers teaching in their classrooms and through CatchLight's Visual Storytelling Summit in Spring 2019. Program partners included: the Boda Group, International Center for Photography, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, The Commonwealth Club, SF Camerawork, Anastasia Photo, San Francisco State University, Project Rebound, United Photo Industries, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, and Minnesota Street Projects. CatchLight Local: A Visual Storytelling Initiative: Responding to media consolidation, news deserts and a growing urgent need for local visual storytelling to help communities see and respond to local issues, this new initiative combines place-based community art engagement with new media models to help reseed visual storytelling at the community level. Launched in the fall of 2019, CatchLight Local paired three visual storytellers with local news rooms resulting in intimate and in-depth coverage of local communities and their sense of home in the midst of a housing crisis. The launch workshop, subsequent open call and public programming started taking place in 2019 and is ongoing in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Partners of CatchLight Local include the GroundTruth Project, the Kresge Foundation, The Bay City News, The San Francisco Public Press, The Salinas Californian, City Hope, Policy Link. The CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit: In 2019, CatchLight held its First Visual Storytelling Summit offering free day-long talks by leading voices in visual storytelling. It also offered portfolio reviews with leaders in the field of visual storytelling to over 50 artists. Partners for this program included the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Minnesota Street Projects, Google and PhotoWings. 0 0 0 804266 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 27 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 CA X Nancy Richards Farese 5106460210 1150 25th Street San Francisco CA 94107 Elodie Mailliet Executive Director 40 0 X X 185654 0 5885 Nancy Richards Farese Board Chair 20 0 X X 0 0 0 Ed Kashi Director 0.25 0 X 0 0 0 Robert J Rosenthal Director 0.25 0 X 0 0 0 Deirdre Atkin Hockett Director 0.25 0 X 0 0 0 Mike Ramsay Director 0.25 0 X 0 0 0 Christopher Michel Director 0.25 0 X 0 0 0 Stephen Mayes Director 0.25 0 X 0 0 0 185654 0 5885 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 71100 0 0 908184 18497 979284 Exhibition event revenue 900099 2303 2303 0 0 Local Initiative 900099 17750 17750 0 0 0 0 0 0 20053 0 0 0 0 1604 71100 9510 -7906 0 -7906 24634 0 24634 24634 0 0 0 1016065 44687 0 -7906 0 0 156000 156000 0 0 0 0 216874 130124 43375 43375 0 0 0 0 276151 261203 2073 12875 18005 12896 2791 2318 27147 23247 -593 4493 33663 27014 2559 4090 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21984 0 21984 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36491 32094 111 4286 8688 8475 61 152 20288 14561 3325 2402 13283 7852 4227 1204 0 0 0 0 21458 15443 3704 2311 43018 38919 2781 1318 0 0 0 0 25662 23258 1923 481 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2204 1895 87 222 2612 0 2612 0 Exhibition and event expenses 32788 32788 0 0 In-kind goods 18497 18497 0 0 974813 804266 91020 79527 212622 312241 0 0 100000 0 0 15298 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4748 48504 29775 25721 4588 4054 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1900 321958 381997 29145 47932 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29145 47932 X 292813 334065 0 0 292813 334065 321958 381997 41252 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 504051 262719 485776 860811 997034 3110391 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 504051 262719 485776 860811 997034 3110391 941792 2168599 3110391 28541 0.69721 0.4417 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29775 25721 4054 0 0 0 0 4054 First Annual Fundraiser 72704 71100 1604 0 0 0 8688 0 822 0 0 72704 71100 1604 0 0 0 8688 0 822 9510 -7906 1 In 2019, Catchlight awarded four leadership fellowships to leaders in the field of visual storytelling around the world totalling $120,000. We also awarded four Local Visual Storytelling totalling $45,000. We award fellowships based on 1. Excellence in visual storytelling 2. Innovation in visual approaches 3. Leadership skills 8 156000 0 FMV Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 We have quarterly check-ins with Fellows and scheduled presentations of the work related to the project we are funding. We agree to expectations via a Letter of Agreement which is signed at the outset of the Fellowship, with agreed upon deliverables and payment schedule. X 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Elodie Mailliet Executive Director 163462 0 34000 0 0 0 0 0 11200 0 208662 0 0 0 Schedule J, Part I, Line 4 Catchlight contributed to Elodie Mailliet Storm's 401(k) plan during 2019 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b Catchlight does not have any committees to act on behalf of the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Chair/Executive Director reviews the tax return and a copy of the tax return is provided to the Board of Directors prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c In 2019, the Board upheld a handbook outlining procedures and policies as well as a code of conduct with: sexual harassment policy, confidentiality agreement, and conflict of interest policy. The organization has implemented development policies and adopted nationally recognized "best practices" consistent with those described by the National Association of Fundraising Professionals. CatchLight joined the Institute for Non-Profit news and adhered to its donor transparency policy by disclosing all major donors to the organization. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The Board provides oversight for the compensation of top management based on industry comps. Salary rates are secured by an offer letter. The Organization follows the same process as that of top management. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Organization's tax returns and organizing documents are available upon request.