Creative Filmmakers Association Laura Paglin
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341694837
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cleveland Heights, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2162469822
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,834
- Expenses
- $112,440
- Assets
- $223,508
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JORDAN DAVIS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PATRICIA NOONAN (TREASURER)
- ROBERT BANKS (BOARD MEMBER)
- MICKIE MCGRAW (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
Mission statement: creative filmmakers association (cfa) was incorporated in 1992 as a nonprofit 501.c.3 production company dedicated to producing thoughtful and provocative media. Cfa's productions have aired on public television and national cable, and have been distributed internationally to the educational market and shown theatrically in the us and canada.
What it reported doing in 2025
Royalties other income includes educational distribution royalties (bullfrog films and alexander press) for the completed documentary films, no umbrella about chaos at the polls during the 2004 national election and a portion of ticket sales as well as facing forward which follows a troubled teen in a strict urban charter school. Royalties were also received from filmrise for the documentary unseen about the discovery of a serial killer operating in plain sight that prompts questions about marginalized lives and criminal justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: -50.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.