Film Clips Spirit of America

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010688221
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2022
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Oxnard, CA, USA
Phone
8059845907
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,194
Expenses
$7,356
Assets
$24,088
Liabilities
$23,924

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL R RHODES (Pres/DIRECTOR)
  • DIANE K RHODES (Secretary/CFO)
  • ROBERT HETTRICK (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of film clips spirit of america is to create meaningful synergies between the worlds of education and entertainment. To this end, film clips spirit of america has focused on the selection and distribution of film clips from hollywood's best movies at low or no cost for use by k-12 teachers, adminstrators and community leaders as resources for character education.

What it reported doing in 2022

OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES DESCRIPTIONSWeb Streaming and School Site Servers FCSOA developed a new program designed to deliver Film Clips for Character Education via web streaming and school site servers with new clips and guides. The purpose of this program is to lower costs and increase the accessibility of Film Clips for Character Education to schools throughout North America. FILM CLIPS FOR FAITH-BASED SCHOOLS AND CHAPLAIN SERVICES.Since its founding it has been the mission of FCSOA to provide Film Clips for Character Education not only to secular educators, but also to educators of all religious faiths including military chaplains and veterans.

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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.3%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.27; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.99; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -50.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -37.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.