Austin Asian American Film Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384028796
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9565343841
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,754
- Expenses
- $183,372
- Assets
- $16,414
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rock Shum (President)
People named in this filing
- Themmi Shimray (Secretary)
- Rock Shum (President)
- Andrew Huynh (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
AAAFF produces programs that tell Asian and Asian American stories through film, educates about AAPI issues, and builds community through partnerships with creatives and other organizations.
What it reported doing in 2022
The Austin Asian American Film Festival takes place in June for hundreds of members and attendees; Monthly Film Series (AAVClub) screens Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) films in collaboration with the AFS 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: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $146K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.