Cinefamily financials

Financial statements filed by nonprofits with the IRS (and, in California, with the Attorney General) provide detailed information into both organizational finances and organizational governance.

Cinefamily has not filed taxes for 2015 or 2016. The organization closed its doors in 2017. In August 2018, Harkham filed taxes for 2017; the filing appears both factually inaccurate and procedurally flawed. It may have been filed as part of an effort to improperly dissolve Cinefamily. Neither Dan Harkham nor the accountant who signed the filing has not responded to outreach.

As of November 2019, Cinefamily has over $60,000 outstanding in local, state, and federal tax liens. These most likely stem from non-payment of property and employment taxes.

The previously unpublished documents below give more detail on Cinefamily’s operations over a period of years, and shed light on unequal staff compensation, fluctuating bank balances, and the organization’s cost structure.

Cinefamily would report daily box office numbers to a central entity to facilitate payment to distributors (a common practice). Years of reports indicate that Cinefamily may have kept two sets of books.

Staff have said that personal use of Cinefamily’s Amazon account was common; they provided screenshots of allegedly improper purchases, from clothes and cat food to electronics, condoms, and porn.

Note documents marked “unpublished and internal” have not been verified as authentic. Even assuming their authenticity, none of these documents necessarily indicates anything improper occurred.

 

Unpublished internal Cinefamily finances