Wilmington Jewish Film Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463400901
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Phone
- 5712417213
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,869
- Expenses
- $72,803
- Assets
- $269,513
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debbie Smith (President)
People named in this filing
- Debbie Smith (President)
- Morris E Levy (Treasurer)
- Sandra Apple (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through powerful films and guided discussions, the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival connects local students with meaningful Holocaust education and supports Jewish-themed film and cultural programming for the Wilmington community and Greater Cape Fear Region. Since 2017, the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival has proudly expanded its mission beyond evening screenings to bring meaningful, age-appropriate Holocaust education directly to local students including UNCW undergraduates. Through our Educational Outreach Program, we partner with area schools and colleges to provide impactful film screenings and guided discussions that help students connect history with the present day. Through the years, more than **2,000 public high school & UNCW students** from New Hanover and Pender counties have experienced films such as _Fanny's Journey_ , the true story of Holocaust survivor Fanny Ben-Ami...
What it reported doing in 2024
In the Spring of 2017, in keeping with Wilmington Jewish Film Festival's educational mission, we expanded our cultural outreach to include daytime screenings of an age-theme-appropriate film for local public high school students as an enhancement of their English curriculum on the Holocaust. The program has been a huge success and we have teachers reaching out to us.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 24.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.7; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 49.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.