Philadelphia Film Factory
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881318508
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2674601189
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,889
- Expenses
- $55,432
- Assets
- $52,372
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jean Bevins (President)
- Martese Bowman (Executive Director)
- Joyce Bevins (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jean Bevins (President)
- Martese Bowman (Executive Director)
- Floyd Marshall (Secretary)
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
The Philadelphia Film Factory (Philm Factory) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering independent filmmakers, residents, youth, and creatives, particularly those from underserved and underrepresented communities, by providing educational, economic, and professional opportunities in film, entertainment, and media. Through hands on training, workshops, mentorship, and community based film productions, Philm Factory equips participants with practical skills, industry experience, and creative exposure needed to thrive in creative industries. The organization provides fiscal sponsorship and production support for independent film projects, assisting artists with funding administration, compliance, and project execution. Philm Factory advances diversity, inclusion, and equitable access to resources while strengthening Philadelphia's film culture, workforce development, and creative economy by building a sustainable ecosystem for media arts and production.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Take One Youth Film Mentorship Program provides film and media education, workforce development, and mentorship for Philadelphia youth, particularly those from underrepresented communities. The program focuses on filmmaking training, storytelling, production, youth violence prevention, and mental health awareness. Participants receive hands-on instruction and access to industry mentors and positive creative outlets. In 2025, the program served 20 youth, building creative and life skills while supporting violence prevention efforts. All funds were used directly for program activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 36.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 73.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.