ETHOS Film Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922693753
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Topanga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3106994303
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,785
- Expenses
- $66,239
- Assets
- $4,295
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anabelle D Mu nro (President)
People named in this filing
- Anabelle D Mu nro (President)
- Diane Miller (Traasurer)
- Erman Baradi (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
ETHOS Film Institute is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its primary exempt purpose is to provide arts education, media literacy training, and cultural programming through film festivals, youth initiatives, and community-based storytelling projects that advance public education and community engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
World Culture Film Festival & ETHOS Film Awards ETHOS Film Institute produced educational film festival programming including the World Culture Film Festival and ETHOS Film Awards. These programs provided public screenings, filmmaker Q&A sessions, educational panels, and workshops focused on mental health awareness, recovery, cross-cultural understanding, and social impact storytelling. Programming was delivered through both in-person events and digital platforms. The festivals provided independent filmmakers with screening opportunities, professional feedback, awards recognition, and public engagement. Approximately 2,500 participants (combined in-person and online attendance, filmmakers, students, and community members) benefited from festival programming and digital content distribution.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95
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: 0.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.