Positive Productions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521110303
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022344755
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,135
- Expenses
- $11,392
- Assets
- $34,881
- Liabilities
- $26,929
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aleia Brown (Vice President)
- SHIRIKIANA GERIMA (President)
People named in this filing
- Daniel Williams (Director)
- Aleia Brown (Vice President)
- Jordan Strudwick (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Positive Productions, Inc. PPI is a 501c3 non-profit arts and humanities organization whose mission is to support, uplift and proliferate African diaspora film and video storytellers. PPI was founded in the notion that the participation of the black community is critical to the support of the filmmaker in order to support the propagation of cultural products.
What it reported doing in 2025
Film exhibition, education, programming and support
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.8%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 17
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.06; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.8% of revenue deployed · 17.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.