Kids Video Connection Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020777236
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Decatur, GA, USA
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,716
- Expenses
- $72,477
- Assets
- $1,157
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alesia Johnson (Founder CEO)
- Phebe Dowel (Board President)
- Dr Amy Aidman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Alesia Johnson (Founder CEO)
- Phebe Dowel (Board President)
- Dr Amy Aidman (Vice 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kids Video Connections mission is to use video production as a creative tool to educate and empower youth 7 -17 with media literacy communication and critical thinking skills that will help them become independent thinkers competent communicators and positive content creators.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Atlanta Childrens Film Festival ACFF promotes positive educational and entertaining films and TV programs for children and families. The festival is two-weeks of educational engaging and eye-opening activities including in-person and virtual film screenings panel discussions and media production workshops for children ages 7-17 parents and industry professionals. In 2025 approximately 240 children parents and independent producers attended the festival. An integral part of the festival is the Film Festival Family Day held at Emory University featuring creative workshops film screenings and awards ceremonies for film winners. The festival serves as a platform for youth and independent producers worldwide and receives submissions from a global pool of talent. The ACFF programming aims to expand childrens imaginations teach media literacy guide youth in creating their own positive media content and introduce youth to careers in the film industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.9%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 39.5%; rating input score 39
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: -8.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.9% of revenue deployed · 39.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.