3Rd I South Asian Independent Film

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
134258004
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4155737577
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Theater

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$125,233
Expenses
$147,279
Assets
$124,394
Liabilities
$1,161

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Camille Ramani (President)

People named in this filing

  • Ivan Jaigirdar (Executive Dir. & Secretary)
  • Anuj Vaidya (Treasurer)
  • Camille Ramani (President)

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

3rd i Films is committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through independent film. We showcase films from lndia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the global South Asian Diaspora. To accomplish our mission we organize an annual film festival, year-round screenings and educational programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What it reported doing in 2025

3rd i's 23rd Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival took place Oct 10-12 in theaters with filmmaker Q&A. Audiences could purchase low priced tickets for narrative and documentary features and shorts from South Asia and its Diaspora, including stories from India, Pakistan, France, UK, Canada, and the USA. The annual festival and year round programs drew approximately 5,000 attendees. An estimated 80% of the audience members are from the diverse Bay Area South Asian communities. The Festival and year round programs were promoted and presented in collaboration with Bay Area arts and South Asian community organizations. Reaching out to diverse segments of the Bay Area and South Asian communities, the events generate discussions around South Asian LGBTQ, women and youth issues, social justice, and civil rights depicted in South Asian cinema.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $125K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.