Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema NFP
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800913905
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Highland Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8476872126
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $185,175
- Expenses
- $199,454
- Assets
- $54,062
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cindy Stern (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Daniel Frankel (Board Treasurer)
- Eileen Sirkin (Board Member)
- Jeffrey Ring (Board Member)
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
To share a love and appreciation of Israeli culture with the Jewish community and the community at large.
What it reported doing in 2025
CFIC showcases Israeli feature films, documentaries, short films and TV showsfor a ten day festival in the spring, hosting between two thousand and three thousand film enthusiasts at a variety of venues in Chicago, Illinois and the northern suburbs of Chicago.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
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: -7.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $199K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.