Butterfly Noir Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882834472
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9174532792
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,700
- Expenses
- $15,951
- Assets
- $7,365
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brandi Webb (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Brandi Webb (Executive Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Butterfly Noir Inc. is a non-profit arts organization that strives to close the opportunity gap for emerging artists, whose talent is underrepresented in all aspects of the tv, film, and media industry. We aim to provide free and low cost educational workshops, programs, and consulting services for a multi-generational collective of artists that help them develop and publish creative content.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program Service Accomplishments- Community Arts Workshops: Butterfly Noir Inc. conducted four 6-12 week community arts workshops throughout the year, reaching over 200 participants from underserved communities. These workshops are central to our mission of eradicating the barriers that historically underrepresented artists face due to systemic racism. Acting: Getting Out of Your Head (Virtual): This workshop taught participants techniques to overcome mental barriers and fully embody their roles, fostering an authentic acting experience. Infusing Writing into Activism (Virtual): Participants explored various screenplay and teleplay genres, focusing on issues impacting their communities. This workshop encouraged the integration of activism into creative writing, empowering participants to use storytelling as a tool for social change. Out in the Field: Cinematography (Hybrid): New York City-based cinematographers were invited to learn hands-on techniques for capturing compelling footage, using camera movements and angles to convey emotions and set the tone of a film. This workshop was designed to enhance the technical skills necessary for emerging filmmakers to tell powerful stories. Digital Marketing workshop (virtual): This workshop covered the basics of digital marketing for content creators. Through these programs and workshops, Butterfly Noir Inc. advanced its mission to support the next generation of artists by providing them with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities needed to succeed in an industry often marked by systemic inequalities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -69.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -85.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.