TAMPA FILM INSTITUTE INC

EIN 51-0592771 TAMPA, FL

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Revenue 2023: $460,337
Expenses 2023: $453,284

Program services were 92.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A31
Classification: 1000
Street: 701 S HOWARD AVE STE 106 PMB 432

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

GIFF is run by the 501c3 Nonprofit Organization The Tampa Film Institute Inc. We are a cultural arts institution that inspires educates and entertains Tampa Bays diverse population through an annual celebration of film year-round events community outreach and social awareness initiatives that foster communication generate economic impact and provide support for the film industry of Tampa Bay and the state of Florida. The Festival showcases films of all types genres including features documentaries shorts music videos international films and more.

Gasparilla Intl Film Festival 2024

Expenses $418,284 · Revenue $154,207

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Timothy Zehnder

Immediate Past President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Roia Barrios

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael Chicon

Tresurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1 + 1 related
Kelley Sandlowski

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Kevin Ambler

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Tyler Martinolich

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Cathy Cromar

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Joseph Alexander

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Tammy Spratling Briant

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

20

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2023

Revenue

$460,337

Expenses

$453,284

Contributions

$306,130

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$360,246

Expenses

$352,624

Contributions

$266,309

Grants paid

$7,500

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2023	$460,337	$453,284	$306,130	$0
2022	$360,246	$352,624	$266,309	$7,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2020 · 990

Revenue

$112,445

Expenses

$89,752

Assets (EOY)

$24,836
2019 · 990

Revenue

$191,590

Expenses

$196,937

Assets (EOY)

$2,142
2018 · 990

Revenue

$332,946

Expenses

$305,832

Assets (EOY)

$7,489
2017 · 990

Revenue

$273,972

Expenses

$323,969

Assets (EOY)

$1,207
2016 · 990

Revenue

$343,908

Expenses

$325,019

Assets (EOY)

$4,126
2015 · 990

Revenue

$296,009

Expenses

$310,801

Assets (EOY)

$14,268
2014 · 990

Revenue

$278,026

Expenses

$279,446

Assets (EOY)

$45,135
2013 · 990

Revenue

$164,645

Expenses

$157,681

Assets (EOY)

$10,658
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$178,807

Assets (EOY)

$7,856
2011 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$146,321

Assets (EOY)

$11,213

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2020	990	$112,445	$89,752	$24,836
2019	990	$191,590	$196,937	$2,142
2018	990	$332,946	$305,832	$7,489
2017	990	$273,972	$323,969	$1,207
2016	990	$343,908	$325,019	$4,126
2015	990	$296,009	$310,801	$14,268
2014	990	$278,026	$279,446	$45,135
2013	990	$164,645	$157,681	$10,658
2012	990	not reported	$178,807	$7,856
2011	990	not reported	$146,321	$11,213

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Hillsborough County Education Found

$7,500

2022 High School film equipment

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA COMMISSION INC

$100,000

2022 Sponsorship
TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA COMMISSION INC

$23,000

2024 Sponsorship
TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA COMMISSION INC

$20,000

2023 Sponsorship

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.