Three Dollar Bill Cinema
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911708195
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2067157011
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,746
- Expenses
- $74,174
- Assets
- $78,277
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDY BOUSTEDT (President)
- JACKIE MICUCCI (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- LINDY BOUSTEDT (President)
- JACKIE MICUCCI (Vice President)
- YASI NARAGHI (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
Three Dollar Bill Cinema fosters deeper community engagement by showcasing queer film programming, educational experiences, and social dialogue.
What it reported doing in 2025
Like many arts organizations, TDBC is facing real challenges. Rising festival costs, decreased sponsorship funding, and shifting audience behavior in a post-pandemic world have forced us to make tough decisions. To stay afloat, we transitioned to an all-volunteer model, choosing to downsize rather than close our doors entirely.This year, we made the strategic decision to combine the Seattle Queer Film Festivals 30th anniversary with the 20th anniversary of TRANS|lations, producing a single, three-day festival to reduce costs while still celebrating with our community. It was a moment of reflection. An opportunity to gather, celebrate, and begin shaping what the next 30 years of TDBC can look like.After several years of financial challenge, TDBC is in the midst of a purposeful transformation. We are restructuring with a renewed focus on education, diverse storytelling, underrepresented voices, and community accessibility. Guided by a bold, forward-looking vision, we are redefining our role as both a cultural anchor and an engine for inclusive creative expression. Our goal is to sustainably present accessible community events while operating within our means - building financial stability, avoiding debt, and laying the groundwork to reintroduce paid staff when the organization is ready.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 comfortably covers expenses. 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.6%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 42%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.6% of revenue deployed · 42% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.