Miami Film Labinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863710569
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7862234888
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,649
- Expenses
- $59,718
- Assets
- $49,897
- Liabilities
- $2,842
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER O CASTELLANOS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER O CASTELLANOS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SILVIA ROYER (DIRECTOR)
- JOANNA-ROSE KRAVITZ (DIRECTOR)
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
Miami film lab is a nonprofit film production company organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. Our programs include: public screenings of films made in miami by miami crew members. We will partner with local cinemas for the screenings and when possible bring in crew members of the film for q&a sessions to educate audiences on our local filmmaking process. This program will account for 10% of our time and resources.a development fellowship competition where local filmmakers will submit proposals for films, television series and digital projects. These projects will be judged for their artistic merit by a panel of industry professionals. Finalists will receive a development fellowship to help produce a production plan for their projects. Those plans will be judged again for both artistic merit and production viability, the best of which will be produced by miami film lab. This will account for 75% of our time and resources. Lastly we will offer mentorship prog
What it reported doing in 2025
Our programs include: public screening of films made in miami by miami crew members.a development fellowship local filmmakers can meet with industry leaders to workshop new films to gain career advice and guidance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 16.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -34.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.