Image Threads Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
833708865
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Elizaville, NY, USA
Phone
9177837903
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,459
Expenses
$6,769
Assets
$402,443
Liabilities
$65,920

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jenia Fridlyand (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Alex Fridlyand (Trustee)
  • Tim Carpenter (Trustee)
  • Michael Abrams (Trustee)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Image Threads Inc. supports artists in pursuing careers in photography, with an emphasis on publishing their photobooks or publishing their work in books and other forms of media.

What it reported doing in 2025

Publishing Program (Steidl Partnership). During 2025 the Organization established a publishing partnership with Steidl Verlag, an internationally recognized photobook publisher in Goettingen, Germany, under the Organization's registered New York State imprint, The Agency. The Organization committed to publish three photobooks (one each by Jenia Fridlyand, John Gossage, and Raymond Meeks) under co-funding terms with Steidl, with the Organization receiving 350 copies of each title for distribution and sale upon publication. During 2025 the artists and Organization representatives traveled to Goettingen for working sessions on the books, and the Organization paid $88,220 to Steidl Verlag toward production. The books are scheduled for delivery in 2026.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 35
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 15.9%; rating input score 16
  • Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 76.2%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 59.45; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -167.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 15.9% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.