2025-04-03T20:19:16-04:00 2024-06-30 814343358 The Sheriff CPA Services LLC 10340 SE 187th Pl Renton WA 98055 990EZ 2023-07-01 810750717 Investigative Studios Inc INVE PO Box 750471 Petaluma CA 949750471 Richard Feldon President 4156022954 2025-04-03 false true Shareef Abduhr-Rahmaan P01911167 4257576915 2025-04-03 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://www.investigativestudios.org X X 22415 X 20231 1 2183 22415 8619 3520 48007 60146 -37731 42379 23240 27888 X 41415 17435 0 0 2689 10453 44104 27888 1725 0 42379 27888 X SEE SCHEDULE O SEE SCHEDULE O 44573 44573 Richard Feldon President 10.00 0 0 0 David Schneider Treasurer 10.00 0 0 0 Oriana Zill de Granados Secretary 1.00 0 0 0 Randy Jones Toll Director 1.00 0 0 0 Jennifer Janisch Executive Director 40.00 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false CA Richard Feldon PO Box 750471 Petaluma CA 949750471 4156022954 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 85670 89755 89488 177100 20231 462244 85670 89755 89488 177100 20231 462244 76922 385322 1 1 2183 2183 464428 0.82970 0.77790 X Other income Part II line 10 or Part III line 12 Royalties $ 480Misc. Income $1,703 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Description of other revenue Part I line 8 Description AmountRoyalties 480Misc Revenue 1,703 Description of other expenses Part I line 16 Description AmountBank Fees 225Insurance 2,147IT 545Website 691Marketing 106Travel 191Misc. Expenses 2Fiscal Sponsorship 44,100 Other changes in net assets or fund balances Part I line 20 Description AmountPPA 23,240 Description of other assets Part II line 24 Category Beginning of Year End of YearAccounts Receivable 0 10,000Prepaid Expenses 2,689 453 Description of total liabilities Part II line 26 Category Beginning of Year End of YearAccounts Payable 1,725 0 Part III response or note to any other line in Part III PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE: INVESTIGATIVE STUDIOS IS AN INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT COMMITTED TO MAKING POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT THROUGH DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST. TRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION IS IMPERATIVE TO A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY. STUDIOS CHAMPIONS THE QUALITY OF CRAFT AND INVESTS IN THE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING COMMUNITY BY SUPPORTING, MENTORING, AND EDUCATING NEXT-GENERATION INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS FROM DIVERSE POPULATIONS AND/OR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS.THE PRODUCTIONS WE SUPPORT FOCUS ON STORIES THAT UNCOVER INJUSTICE, ABUSE, AND WRONGDOING, MAKING THEM A UNIQUELY POWERFUL MEDIUM TO ROUSE THE MOST DYNAMIC LEVER OF CHANGE: A WELL-INFORMED PUBLIC. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS: The Reckoning This documentary film is in development, and Investigative Studios is the fiscal sponsor and is providing editorial input.It all began with a utopian goal to connect everyone on the globe to what was called the Internet. It promised a new marketplace of ideas, entertainment, goods, and services, but it also unleashed astaggering torrent of disinformation, hatemongering, and chaos. Today, were at a crossroads. Can theinternet fix itself, or must regulation be imposed if its not too late? What do we do now? Who should decide what should or should not be on the Internet? Will there be a reckoning? While the U.S. abandoned its public interest standards with deregulation, the EU is stepping up. Wereveal The Brussels Effect and the AI Time Bomb. We have interviewed EU leaders Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton, Googles Richard Gingras, US political leaders Al Gore, and Newton Minow, UC scientist Hani Farid, Stanford cyber policy expert Marietje Schaake, Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, among others. Bloodhorse This documentary film is in development and is an Investigative Studios production. Bloodhorse will be an explosive feature documentary film exposing the crimes lurking beneath the glamorous facade of horse racing, a high-stakes, global sport plagued by fraud, doping, and injustice. Horse racing, once known as the sport of kings, has become the sport of cheaters, drug dealers, money launderers, criminal gangs, and dead horses. Twenty-two thoroughbreds die on average every week at racetracks in the United States. In Europe? Zero. This film is a murder mystery, and a tale of corruption told through the story of one rescued, broken-down thoroughbred and a dogged journalist who takes viewers into the dark underbelly of the sport as she investigates the mysterious deaths of champion racehorses and on a journey with the horsemen and women whistleblowers who have turned on their sport to try to save it from itself.During FY 2023-2024, Investigative Studios employed a full-time Executive Director who led our efforts to produce films, train the next generation of investigative journalism filmmakers, and raise funds for the organization.