Monadnock International Film Festival

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454021092
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Keene, NH, USA
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Film, Video

Reported finances

Revenue
$43,446
Expenses
$54,995
Assets
$49,028
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Deirdre Fitzgerald (Board Chair)
  • Kathy Reilly (Vice Chair)
  • Pamela Murphy (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Celebrate our world's diversity through independent films that educate, enrich and engage audiences.

What it reported doing in 2025

MONIFF is an international film festival that attracts nearly 3,000 people every year. We continue to seek out partnerships with like-minded organizations in the community to build a robust year-round program beyond our annual film festival each fall. We take pride in representing and sharing the stories of diverse communities. Our selection of local, regional, and global films and filmmakers covers timely topics such as climate change, activism, indigenous cultures, DIPOC, LGBTQ, women empowerment, and more. 2025 marked our 13th annual festival, featuring films ranging from heartwarming dramas to thought-provoking documentaries that reflect the diversity and complexity of the times, capturing joy, hope, social upheaval, and the enduring spirit that defines us as human beings. Given the challenges facing arts and culture in New Hampshire, we are so grateful to be able to continue to bring this event to Keene and the region. The program featured over 80 films (including both features an

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% 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

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: 15
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 16.1%; rating input score 16
  • Program expense ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 13

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: -26.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 16.1% of revenue deployed · 12.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.