Northern Film Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814121657
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128881338
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,425
- Expenses
- $49,945
- Assets
- $30,532
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD HANSEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD HANSEN (PRESIDENT)
- TREY WODELE (BOARD CHAIR)
- CHRIS ALEXANDER (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northern film alliance is a partnership of film festivals in the northern region of the united states. Its mission is to support the goals of its member festivals while serving as a conduit for film exhibition, education and production.
What it reported doing in 2023
Northern film alliance is a parntership of film festivals in the northern region of the united states. Its mission is to support the goals of its member festivals while serving as a conduit for film exhibition, education and production. The partnership consists of the following fistivals: 1.) duluth superior film festival is a cultural organization deducated to the role of film and art as a conduit of powerful ideas and diverse viewpoints. 2.) edu film festival serves an important role in the development of young filmmakers in Minnesota. Edu aims to provide young filmmakers with an authentic film festival experience, a valuable understanding of the film industry, and an opportunity to screen their movies in a theatrical setting. 3.) Minnesota webfest brings the best web series to Minnesota showing off Minnesota creative talent. Minnesota web fest is the first film festival dedicated to the web series format in the upper midwest and is a member of the web series world cup.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
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: -7.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 16%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -31.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.1% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.