Uniondocs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861150496
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Ridgewood, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7183957902
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Media, Communications Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,740,624
- Expenses
- $2,429,927
- Assets
- $3,963,721
- Liabilities
- $2,015,131
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NOAH LANDOW (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER ALLEN (EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $107,365 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule owe bring together a diverse community of experimental media-makers, dedicated journalists, critical thinkers, and local partners on a search for urgent expressions of the human experience, practical perspectives on the world today, and compelling visions for the future.
What it reported doing in 2024
During fiscal year 2025, while undertaking an active renovation of our headquarters, we maintained the full rigor of our programs. We hosted 4 labs (collaborative studio, early production lab, research & development lab, and pod pod) that united 43 early career artists, producing 6 short documentaries for distribution, developing 23 work-in-progress features, and 6 work-in-progress audio projects for production. Workshops were back, engaging 34 artists to lead two-to-four day courses for 108 participants, totaling 20 workshop sessions on 7 themes of the strongest traditions and most forward-looking experiments in documentary art. We programmed 78 events showcasing powerful works by 221 artists for a local audience of 4,958 and an international membership of 2,400 viewers, sparking important issue-driven conversations. Finally, our fellowship initiative continued with the release of two research-driven volumes of critical writing on radical nonfiction practices from our previous cohort, while our current cohort kicked off their research at the opening seminar at doclisboa. Concurrently, following the start of demolition in fall 2024, we made significant construction progress in our building and raised an additional $1.2 million to support both the current and final phases of the capital project.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.1% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.