Citizen Film Inc

Analysis

Citizen Film Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Citizen Film Inc reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $930k to $2.0m (+111%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Citizen Film Inc sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Port Chester - Rye Brook Public Library ($2.0m), Aurora Waldorf School ($2.0m) and Oakland Community College Foundation ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% and program service revenue 58% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $673k. At year end it held assets of $695k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $676k.