DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841962927
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Eugene, OR, USA
Phone
5419541798
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$124,205
Expenses
$108,836
Assets
$118,999

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARK YOUNG (President)
  • SUSAN HIRATA (Past President)

People named in this filing

  • MARK YOUNG (President)
  • PAMELA QUAN (Exec Dir/Treas)
  • ERIN CARACOL (Secretary)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The disorient asian american film festival of Oregon's mission is to promote awareness and understanding of asian american and native hawaiian & pacific islander stories through independent film.

What it reported doing in 2024

Disorient 2025 film festival:20th aniversary community film festival. Disorient 2025 was a hybrid festival with 573 unique attendees, 2252 tickets scanned. Showcased 111 films, including 4 films from past disorient festivals to honor the breadth of histories and stories that have been exhibited during the last 2 decades. Disorient shares awareness of asian american and native hawaiian/pacific islander narratives and representation as well as highlights social justice issues. Disorient 2025 theme was "reflections." preview screening february 15, 2025 of Oregon premiere of "the motherload." filmmakers van tran nguyen and alex derwick were in attendance for their pacific northwest premiere. Live screening and filmmaker q&a's took place at the art house eugene during march 6-9, 2025. Virtual screenings were set up on eventive during march 10-23, 2025 with films open to audiences in Oregon, Washington, California, and Hawaii. Festival awards and audience choice awards.

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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85

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: 12.4%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.