Safilm - San Antonio Film Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262196804
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2108855888
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,563
- Expenses
- $74,387
- Assets
- $7,915
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- ANGELA COVO (DIRECTOR)
- SUSAN RANJEL (DIRECTOR)
- ADAM ROCHA (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the safilm san antonio film festival, a nonprofit 501(c)3, is to serve as an accessible and inclusive platform for artists in the category of cinema and provide cinematic culture to a diverse audience. The san antonio film festival showcases films from around the world while nurturing, fostering, and developing filmmakers of all ages. Safilm attracts film lovers, and our audiences include press, filmmakers, industry leaders and die-hard fans. The san antonio film festival sets up an amazing, creative innovative environment for just a few days every year where opportunities for one-on-one networking abound, connections are forged and filmmakers have a slew of unique opportunities to share ideas and advance their careers. As an accessible and inclusive platform for cinema artists, the san antonio film festival also brings together scores of new and original films from across the country and around the world to delight, elevate and edify cinema lovers as well.
What it reported doing in 2025
Showcasing independently produced films
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.5%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 10; 10th 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.