Association of Film Commissioners International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521338829
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8186741094
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $760,490
- Expenses
- $690,474
- Assets
- $464,772
- Liabilities
- $492,051
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Claire Brook D'oench (Executive Director)
- JACLYN PHILPOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- Marjorie Galas (SR DIRECTOR MEMBERS & EDUCATION): $75,000 total reported compensation
- Claire Brook D'oench (Executive Director): $70,417 total reported compensation
- Jennifer Casadessus (Sr. Coord, Strategic Partnerships): $52,237 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The association of film commissioners international (afci) is the professional organization for film commissions and an essential resource for the industry and jurisdictions with whom they partner. Afci members support and promote the development of feature, television, mission commercial and new media production throughout the world for the benefit of their local communities. Afci is dedicated to representing the interests of its members and to providing them with the latest information, education, resources, and connections to operate at the highest standards of professional practice in serving their clients and respective jurisdictions. The mission of the afci is to be essential to the advancement and promotion of excellence in the global production of media on location, in an ethical and professional manner.
What it reported doing in 2025
Participation in film festivals and events, educate afci members and the public about the film/video production industry, about film commission jobs and about how they can provide better services to the industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.06; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $675K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.