New Mexico · Nonprofit
KATHARSIS MEDIA
KATHARSIS MEDIA (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $81 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($81). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $252k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $81
- Net assets
- $3k
What Katharsis Media does
Mission
Katharsis Media empowers communities through storytelling by advancing education, workforce development, and access in film and television. The organization provides hands-on training, apprenticeships, and community broadcast programming to create sustainable industry pathways for emerging artists and creators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Katharsis Media expanded workforce development opportunities in film and television through its Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP), pre-apprenticeship training, internships, and professional skills development. In FY2025, the organization became an officially recognized Registered Apprenticeship Program with 14 occupational tracks in film and television careers. Katharsis Media onboarded 4 registered apprentices, trained 19 pre-apprentices (16 of whom completed the program), supported 6 general interns and 15 high school interns, and provided approximately 82 hours of professional development and workforce training. Participants received hands-on experience through real-world productions, mentorship, and paid learning opportunities designed to build sustainable creative careers.
$180,593 spent$174,101 earned by the program66% of program spendingKatharsis Media created and supported community-centered film, television, and digital media productions that elevate local voices, businesses, artists, and events. In FY2025, the organization produced 79 episodes of community television programming, 4 student short films for Film Prize Junior, and 6 music videos, while supporting 10 community productions and 14 local events through production, crew, and audiovisual support. Programming highlighted local businesses, artists, nonprofits, and cultural initiatives while simultaneously serving as a hands-on training environment for emerging filmmakers.
$49,897 spent$67,521 earned by the program18% of program spendingKatharsis Media supported local artists and creative professionals through artist residencies, emergency assistance, affordable creative infrastructure, and paid mentorship opportunities. Through the UETF Residency Resiliency Program in partnership with the City of Albuquerque, the organization hosted 12 artists in residence and distributed milestone-based financial support for artistic projects. Katharsis Media also operated the New Mexico Film Emergency Fund, providing emergency financial assistance for filmmakers and creative professionals experiencing hardship through direct vendor payments. Additionally, the organization expanded access to professional creative space and resources through its artist support initiatives and studio infrastructure. Katharsis Media also secured Creative Industries Division funding to expand affordable creative infrastructure through the development of Hot Sets, a modular production environment designed to support artists, workforce training, and community film and television productions. Planning and early implementation began during FY2025, with full buildout occurring in the following fiscal year. NOTE: Through the UETF Residency Resiliency…
$41,848 spentof which $10,000 as grants$10,000 earned by the program15% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $272,338.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $694 to $69k (+9841%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 34% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of KATHARSIS MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Candice Neu
President of the Board / Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $34.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KATHARSIS MEDIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of KATHARSIS MEDIA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
KATHARSIS MEDIA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KATHARSIS MEDIA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KATHARSIS MEDIA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KATHARSIS MEDIA?
- KATHARSIS MEDIA (New Mexico) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $81 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($81). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KATHARSIS MEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $81 in grants to KATHARSIS MEDIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KATHARSIS MEDIA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KATHARSIS MEDIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing