Armenian Film Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953415629
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Palos Verdes Estates, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103781410
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,309
- Expenses
- $105,520
- Assets
- $56,623
- Liabilities
- $32,725
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- Gerald Papazian (Chairman)
- Carla Garapedian (Treasurer)
- Tamar Mashigian (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Produce and preserve educational films or Armenian history and culture
What it reported doing in 2024
Music Man Documentary - The documentary will chronicle the building of a Pipe Organ for St. Vartan's Cathedral in New York, New York and also tell the story of Edward Avedisian, including his achievements and his philanthropy.
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 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67
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: 10.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.9% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.