Independent Film Society of Boston Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030482207
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6175962484
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,355
- Expenses
- $222,233
- Assets
- $28,601
- Liabilities
- $24,651
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN TAMM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CLERK)
- SCOTT MOOMAW (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRIAN TAMM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CLERK)
- NANCY CAMPBELL (PROGRAM MANAGER & TREASURER)
- SCOTT MOOMAW (PRESIDENT)
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 organization will seek to educate and enrich individuals and the community through visual arts, specifically innovative and artistic independent film. This will be accomplished through workshops, seminars, and an annual film festival that will actively involve the city of boston and its residents and businesses. It will also seek to enhance public awareness of independent films and filmmakers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Artistic programming for independent films
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 61.3%; rating input score 61
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: -13.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.86; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 61.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.