CATHOLIC FILM INSTITUTE C/o Ryan McCarty
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994577977
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lees Summit, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8882342046
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,442
- Expenses
- $46,324
- Assets
- $31,351
- Liabilities
- $100
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Ryan C H McCarty (Chairman)
- Karolyn J H McCarty (Director)
- Samuel K Caughron (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
The specific purpose of Catholic Film Institute is to save souls by making accessible to all the treasury of truths contained in the Deposit of Faith, including the timeless traditions of the Catholic Church, by and through cinema and other visual arts. Catholic Film Institute seeks, in the best traditions of the Catholic artistic heritage, to reclaim modern culture from the clutches of sin and death by rallying creative artists worldwide around the standard of Christ Jesus, forming a fellowship of Catholic filmmakers in His holy name, equipping them with the Armor of God, mobilizing them to courageously consummate the Great Commission via cinema and other visual media, thereby answering the call by Pope St. John Paul II for a "New Evangelization."
What it reported doing in 2025
We went public with the apostolate on the Feast of St. Veronica--July 12, 2025--and had a public Mass celebrated to commemorate the occasion. In early August, we traveled to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, WI, to consecrate the apostolate to her and put it under her special patronage and protection. Since then, we have been building out the online infrastructure of the apostolate, including its website and membership portal, and undertook no other specific programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.8%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
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: 40.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.8% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.