Best Video Film & Cultural Center
Donations deductibleRevenue
$288k
year to 30 September 2025
Expenses
$209k
year to 30 September 2025
Total assets
$227k
$53k liabilities
Net assets
$174k
assets less liabilities
Directors and trustees
9
3.6y av
Staff
16
employees, year to 30 September 2025
Left since last filing
0
no seats appear to have opened
Officers and senior staff
8
named in Part VII
Best Video Film & Cultural Center's network
9 people1 organisationi9 people and 1 organisation on this map.The large node is the subject of this page. Solid lines are what the register itself records (9). Violet dotted lines (1) are likely: the same full name sits on the current board of another organisation in the same register and region. Form 990 filings give names without a person identifier; SEC insider filings carry a CIK. It may be a different person.The board
9 listediTime on the board is observed from the annual filings: the IRS files no appointment date, so the bar counts years from the first filing the person appears on - a lower bound, not a filed start date. Names are exactly as filed. The IRS publishes no person identifier, so this edition does not yet link a person across organisations in the tables. The network map shows same-name matches as likely links only, never as confirmed.Tenure and departures are observed across annual filings. Observed tenure is a lower bound - a member may have joined before the first year on record. The organisation reported 8 voting members of its governing body on its latest Form 990 Part VI, which matches the board listed here.| Name | Role as filed | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Parker Paprota | Director | 2024 | 2 yrs |
| Ariana Stover | Vice Preside | 2024 | 2 yrs |
| Dan Soto | Director | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Henry Hoffman | Company secretary | 2018 | 8 yrs |
| Julie E Smith (also filed as Julie Smith) | President | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| Komal Warren | Treasurer | 2024 | 2 yrs |
| Raizine Bruton | Executive Di | 2024 | 2 yrs |
| Shamain McAllister | Director | 2022 | 4 yrs |
| Will Oxford | Director | 2024 | 2 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Officers and senior leadership
8 listediNamed in Part VII as officers, key employees or highest-compensated staff - not board members, shown for completeness.| Name | Title as filed | On the filings |
|---|---|---|
| Christian McNamara | Treasurer | since 2020 |
| Christopher Renton | President | 2022 |
| Crystal Cathcart | Vice President | since 2020 |
| David B Margolis | President | since 2018 |
| Jean Blue | Company secretary | since 2018 |
| Lisa Tonner | Company secretary | since 2020 |
| Richard Brown | Vice President | 2022 |
| Scott White | Treasurer | since 2018 |
Pay and hours
year to 30 September 2025iFrom Part VII of the Form 990: compensation reported for each officer, director, trustee, key employee and highest-paid staff member, and the average hours a week they report. Most board members are unpaid; a blank means nothing was reported. Pay from related organisations is shown separately.| Name | Title as filed | Hours a week | Pay from the organisation | Related organisations | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raizine Bruton | Executive Di | 20 | $49k | ||
| Julie E Smith | President | 10 | $12k | ||
| Henry Hoffman | Secretary | 5 | $0 | ||
| Shamain McAllister | Director | 3 | $0 | ||
| Will Oxford | Director | 3 | $0 | ||
| Adam Parker Paprota | Director | 4 | $0 | ||
| Dan Soto | Director | 3 | $0 | ||
| Ariana Stover | Vice Preside | 5 | $0 | ||
| Komal Warren | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
About
- Legal name
- Best Video Film & Cultural Center
- EIN
- 472773702
- Address
- 1842 Whitney Ave, Hamden, CT, 06517-1405
- State
- Connecticut
- Mission
- Best video film & culteral center's mission is to preserve an international archive of over 30,000 dvd's and explore new ways to bring people, film, and music together in a community space. It will accomplish its mission by providing a) movie screenings with introductions and post-film discussions that enrich the appreciation of the film content b) a performance space committed to an... (as filed on the Form 990)
- Activity (NTEE)
- A31 Arts, culture and humanities
- IRS classification
- 501(c)03 (tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) where shown)
- Classified purpose
- Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Size band
- 4 (IRS master file code)
- Formed
- 2015
- Principal officer
- Julie E Smith (as named on the Form 990)
- IRS ruling date
- 1 February 2016
- Status
- Code 01 (unconditional exemption)
- Form 990 filings on record
- 8, latest 2025
- IRS Publication 78
- PC (contributions deductible)
Most connected
Longest observed on the filings
≥8years on the filingsHenry Hoffman
≥4years on the filingsJulie E Smith
≥4years on the filingsShamain McAllister
≥3years on the filingsDan Soto
Latest return
year to 30 September 2025iFigures from the newest Form 990 or 990-EZ in the IRS e-file releases of 2025 and 2026, for the year ending 30 September 2025. US dollars, as filed.- Total assets
- $227k
- Total liabilities
- $53k
- Net assets or fund balances
- $174k
- Contributions and grants received
- $251k
- Program service revenue
- $26k
- Employees
- 16
Filed finances
1 yeariTotals as filed on the IRS Form 990 (revenue and expenses), by tax year.| Tax year | Total revenue | Total expenses | Surplus or deficit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $65k | $158k | Deficit $94k |
As filed on the IRS Form 990. US dollars.
State registration
1 entityiBusiness-entity registers published by US states. These records are matched to this organisation by name and state, not by EIN, and are labelled as likely matches. Street addresses are not shown.Best Video Film And Cultural Center, Inc. likely matchiMatched by exact name and state (and ZIP where shown). State registers do not publish EINs, so this is not a confirmed match. Source: Connecticut Secretary of the State, business registry and officers (data.ct.gov n7gp-d28j and ka36-64k6). Licence not stated. Data last fetched 18 October 2026.
- State
- Connecticut
- Entity type
- Non-Stock
- Status
- Active - Annual report due
- Formed
- 17 November 2014
- Registered agent
- Raizine Bruton (city and state not held)
Officers (1)
- Raizine Bruton Director
City and state of officers are not held in this extract.