New York · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC
SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,517 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($107,423). 0 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 FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Inc does
Mission
Enabling the technical framework and global professional community that makes motion pictures, television, and professional media through our global society of technologists, developers, and creatives by setting industry standards, providing relevant education, and fostering an engaged membership community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conferences - smpte holds technical conferences to bring together the best minds in the industry to explore the most exciting advancements in media and entertainment technology with industry change makers, a select group of cto's, chief engineers, content producers, and top students from around the globe. The smpte media technology summit is still the only industry event featuring peer-reviewed technical content, to ensure that the ideas presented are always relevant and accurate, from the experts in their fields.
$1,236,494 spent$605,987 earned by the program34% of program spendingStandards - smpte provides the framework by which the industry comes together to develop and maintain internationally recognized media technology standards and related documents.
$476,916 spent$264,439 earned by the program13% of program spendingSections - sections are the face of smpte to many of our members. They are a great resource for educational programming, technical expertise, and networking. Upon joining smpte, new members are placed in a section based on geographic location.
$453,369 spent$106,278 earned by the program12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,496,767 spent$2,064,678 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,663,546.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $6.4M to $4.6M (−28%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 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 SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC'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. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $118k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ibc Convention LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC?
- SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,517 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($107,423). 0 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 SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $117,517 in grants to SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $107,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION ENGINEERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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