Aitysh USA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473362394
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Long Beach, CA, USA
Phone
3104309510
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Film, Video

Reported finances

Revenue
$346,048
Expenses
$229,615
Assets
$173,485
Liabilities
$24,011

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GEORGES N CHAMCHOUM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • GEORGES N CHAMCHOUM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $15,000 total reported compensation
  • ASEL SHERNIYAZOVA (MANAGING DIRECTOR): $10,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) brings the best of a broad select of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles in order to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers

What it reported doing in 2024

Asian film festivals and special film days events

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Missing
    • Other executive compensation review process: Limited
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 33.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 29.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.