San Francisco Art and Film Program

What it reported doing in 2024

The school year ending in June 2025 marked San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers 32nd year of offering Bay Area students free access to arts programming. We were able to serve over 650 students, primarily coming from public high schools in San Francisco. CINE CLUBClassic films were held at The Randall Museum on Fridays. Attendance was free and ranged from 40 to 80 students, plus mentors, parents and alumni. Students were introduced the film and its director before beginning each screening. Cine Club films are selected to give students a wide background in the history of serious film and to thrill and excite them about the scope and breath of great filmmaking. The discussions help students explore their ideas in depth. Students are encouraged to share their questions, personal observations, likes and dislikes.Our annual film essay contest was held with cash prizes for the best essays on films screened in Cine Club that year.ART SATURDAYStudents met bi-monthly to tour art galleries and museums or special cultural events with mentors. Following the tour students discussed their experience over a lunch provided by SF Art and Film. Destinations included SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Minnesota Street Project, the Exploratorium, the Silent Film Festival, and downtown SF art galleries.Art Saturday is free of charge and open to any student who is interested in attending. It offers a perfect way for students, especially those from outside San Francisco, to become more familiar and relaxed about moving around the city. It is also an opportunity for students from different schools to meet and make friendships through shared interest in art.FREE TICKETSThroughout the year Art & Film is able to offer free seats to a variety of cultural events. All middle school, high school and college students are eligible. These seats are donated by the cultural institutions, many of which have worked with us since our inception in 1993.Attendance ranged between 15 and 60 students depending on tickets available. Venues included the SF Symphony, the SF Opera, the SF Ballet, the American Conservatory Theater, Word for Word Theater Company, and various film festivals.FILM WORKSHOPEach workshop meeting ran approximately six hours long, during which students studied and discussed films, developed scripts and prepared their own film shoots. The Film Workshop is our only fee-based program, with 37% of the workshop students receiving scholarship funds. In the summer, we held our annual Summer Film Intensive with 18 students spending nine days studying great works of cinema and making their very first films. Our Film Workshop is offered annually is open to all Bay Area students, from late middle school through college. Each year, new students are introduced to the fundamentals of professional filmmaking while returning students refine and deepen their skills. Film professionals help students produce their own prize-winning films. The workshop acts as producer, helping students to build a portfolio of work that will help them get into film schools and develop a foundation of skills looking, seeing, thinking, doing - that will serve them throughout their careers. Students are given hands on experience in editing, lighting, photography and directing.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
• Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings