Lone Star Film Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752741705
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8179246000
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,814
- Expenses
- $219,911
- Assets
- $159,258
- Liabilities
- $126,325
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- RED SANDERS (BOARD CHAIR)
- ANGELIQUE DE LUCA (VICE CHAIR)
- JOSHUA MILLS (TREASURER)
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 lone star film society exists to cultivate an appreciation and understanding of the moving image as an art form and to showcase the city of fort worth to the world. The society accomplishes this mission through year-round presentation, education, and community collaboration. This includes an annual international film festival that is the leading event of its kind in north tx.
What it reported doing in 2025
The lone star international film festival is a forum that showcases the best in american and international independent cinema. The festival is the kaystone program through which the lone star film society provides artistic and educational enrichment of the citizens of tarrant county. Over 5,000 individuals attended the festival in 2021 and had the unique opportunity to interact with film-makers. Highlighted events within the festival include an awards brunch where the lone star film society presents the lsiff life achievement aware, and a program called fort worth focus where kids have the opportunity to experience the red carpet and interact with filmmakers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $88K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 20 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.