After Hours Film Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363689391
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wheaton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6305344528
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,903
- Expenses
- $18,413
- Assets
- $19,983
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Deborah Venezia (President)
People named in this filing
- Deborah Venezia (President)
- Laura Rivas (Director)
- Russell Iwami (Director)
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
After Hours Film Society programs feature foreign, art, and independent films. Each screening is followed by a lecture or group discussion led by a filmmaker, film critic, film educator or other film professional. For the benefit of an average audience of 350 people (pre-pandemic), it supports our mission of encouraging the appreciation of film both as an art form and as a medium of information and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
A total of 24 in-person screenings were held in 2024, benefitting 4,764 attendees. Each program was preceded by a live Mighty Wurlitzer organ concert and followed by a post-screening discussion led by a film critic or professional.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.9%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 48.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.