Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival
Legal name: Jfilmla
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873258167
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3102591241
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Film, Video
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,633
- Expenses
- $105,579
- Assets
- $354,304
- Liabilities
- $618
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HILARY HELSTEIN (PRESIDENT,CE)
Highest reported compensation
- HILARY HELSTEIN (PRESIDENT,CE): $58,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve and celebrate rich Jewish heritage, cultivate Jewish values and the quality of Jewish life in the Los Angeles community (for affiliated and unaffiliated people), and create a sense of community through programming for individuals, families, and organizations. []( **Thank you for your support! The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival is a program of JFilmLA, a 501(c)(3) California Nonprofit Corporation. Facebook Twitter. The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (LAJFF) builds community awareness, appreciation and pride in the diversity of the Jewish people through a cinematic experience. The mission of LAJFF is to preserve and celebrate the rich Jewish heritage; to cultivate Jewish values and the quality of Jewish life in the LA community (not only for the affiliated but unaffiliated); and to create and maintain a sense of community by providing important and exciting programming...
What it reported doing in 2024
Ticket sales and expenses
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 55
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.3%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.36; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 60.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 40.3% of revenue deployed · 58.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 40/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.