Gig Harbor Film Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320200264
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Gig Harbor, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2536829585
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,249
- Expenses
- $362,255
- Assets
- $109,701
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN HARRINGTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TINA SHOEMAKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LEE JORGENSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- PETER MORKILL (TREASURER)
- JANE KOLER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Gig Harbor Film Festival is to cultivate a community of filmmakers and film lovers that celebrates the power of the cinematic arts to educate, entertain, and inspire.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.5%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 30%; rating input score 30
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.5% of revenue deployed · 30% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.