New Jersey · Nonprofit
TALKING EYES MEDIA INC
TALKING EYES MEDIA INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,451 to it, the largest being GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $496k
- Net assets
- $193k
What Talking Eyes Media Inc does
Mission
Talking Eyes Media (TEM) creates powerful media for pressing issues. The Organization includes visual storytellers who create documentary films, photography, books, exhibitions and public programming that actively stimulate dialogue and advocate for positive social change. Talking Eyes turns a probing eye on situations where people struggle unduly, where resources are poorly distributed, and where theres tremendous opportunity to improve society for future generations. The work is used extensively by educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and foundations to illuminate, educate and inspire people to become more engaged.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Production Services In 2024, Talking Eyes Media (TEM) marked its 21st anniversary and TEM continued to share our ongoing projects while pursuing several new initiatives. TEM was also honored to have Executive Director Julie Winokur named one of 76 artists to be awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts. This competitive prize acknowledges an outstanding contribution to the arts in New Jersey.Talking Eyes Medias project Newest Americans continues to be a valuable resource for educators and the general public, and TEM continued to deploy the Newark Story Bus to events in the city of Newark. This multi-year digital media project examines immigration and American identity. Developed in partnership with Rutgers University-Newark and VII Photo, Newest Americans produces short films, radio pieces, written essays, exhibitions and public events that explore the lives and communities, trials and aspirations of Americas diverse immigrant population. The project was awarded Best Online Storytelling Project in 2021 by Pictures of the Year International.Through Newest Americans, TEM has developed partnerships with Audible, Newark Museum of Art,…
$342,887 spent100% of program spendingPermissions Permissions or licensing fees grant the right to republish photos, video and text from TEM projects.
Honoraria Talking Eyes staff and contributors received $5500 in honoraria to present Talking Eyes projects to diverse audiences. Over the past year, our Executive Director, Julie Winokur, and the protagonists from the film presented The Sacrifice Zone at 10 in-person screenings, which were followed by robust post-screening discussion. Julie also presented a keynote address about Bring It to the Table at the Madeira School in Virginia.
Streaming Sales Talking Eyes Medias (TEM'S) films sell predominantly to educational institutions, libraries, colleges, universities, and the community based organizations. TEM's titles include The Sacrifice Zone, Bring It to The Table, Aging in America, and The Sandwich Generation. TEM's films earned over $4000 in streaming license fees from various organizations.
Web TEMs projects are all available via the web. The TEM project Newest Americans had 45,000 page views in 2024 and TEM films were seen extensively through The New York Times, National Geographic, Time, and NPR online. The Sacrifice Zone website had over 8,000 page views. The Short films TEM produce for nonprofits and foundations are also available online through their websites as well as the TEM website.
Education The TEM team taught multi-media skills to students around the world through online workshops. TEM also mentored several aspiring filmmakers over the course of the year, as well as several Rutgers student interns for Newest Americans.
Exhibition and Screenings TEM films screened at film festivals, community events, conferences and classrooms across the country, most of which are available to the general public and most of which were streamed online.
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $342,887.
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 $425k to $301k (−29%).
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: 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of TALKING EYES MEDIA INC’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Julie Winokur
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $146k → $48k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 TALKING EYES MEDIA 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
TALKING EYES MEDIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 TALKING EYES MEDIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2019 96% · 2020 58% · 2021 39% · 2022 49% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of TALKING EYES MEDIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of TALKING EYES MEDIA INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TALKING EYES MEDIA INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TALKING EYES MEDIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TALKING EYES MEDIA 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TALKING EYES MEDIA 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 TALKING EYES MEDIA INC?
- TALKING EYES MEDIA INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $496,451 to it, the largest being GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TALKING EYES MEDIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $496,451 in grants to TALKING EYES MEDIA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TALKING EYES MEDIA INC?
- GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TALKING EYES MEDIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 12 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