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AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE INC

EIN 52-6072925 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$40,176,502
Expenses 2024
$38,741,050

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A310
Classification
1200
Street
2021 N WESTERN AVE

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 · 2024

Mission

THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ("AFI") IS A NATIONAL INSTITUTE PROVIDING LEADERSHIP IN SCREEN EDUCATION AND THE RECOGNITION AND CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE IN THE ART OF FILM, TELEVISION AND DIGITAL MEDIA.

  • SEE SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $21,771,305 · Grants $2,326,249 · Revenue $19,548,691

  • SEE SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $6,293,043 · Revenue $3,063,775

  • SEE SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $2,436,817 · Revenue $2,024,451

  • PRESERVATION AND DOCUMENTATION:-AFI COLLECTION: THIS VITAL AND INDISPENSABLE PART OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ARCHIVE CONTINUES TO ACQUIRE AND PRESERVE FILMS AS PART OF ITS ONGOING MISSION TO MAINTAIN AMERICA'S FILM HERITAGE. THE COLLECTION INCLUDES OVER 37,000 TITLES, CONSISTING PRIMARILY OF THEATRICAL FEATURES AND SHORTS, AS WELL AS SUBSTANTIAL NUMBERS OF NEWSREELS, DOCUMENTARIES AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS.-AFI CATALOG: THIS DEFINITIVE ONLINE DATABASE SETS THE STANDARD AS THE SOURCE FOR ACCURATE INFORMATION ON THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FILM. IT HAS BEEN CALLED "THE AUTHORITATIVE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN FILM."

    Expenses $843,306

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert Gazzale

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $1,032,227
    From this org
    $1,016,789
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,438
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $1,016,789
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,638
    Filer's total
    $1,032,227
  • Kathleen Kennedy

    CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Robert A Daly

    CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Jon Avnet

    VICE CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Richard Frank

    VICE CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Marshall Herskovitz

    VICE CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Edward Zwick

    VICE CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUST

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Pamela Abdy

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cris Abrego

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wylie A Aitken Esq

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeanine Basinger

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alan Bergman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Halle Berry

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gary Birkenbeuel

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jim Breyer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James L Brooks

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charlie Collier

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ariana Debose

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Fran Drescher

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ava Duvernay

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Collins Fisher

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lesli Linka Glatter

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bonnie Hammer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Carla D Hayden

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mike Hopkins

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $40,176,502
    Expenses
    $38,741,050
    Contributions
    $12,825,520
    Grants paid
    $2,326,249
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $35,259,014
    Expenses
    $37,461,757
    Contributions
    $9,732,402
    Grants paid
    $2,120,083
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $39,747,123
    Expenses
    $34,798,231
    Contributions
    $16,514,418
    Grants paid
    $2,347,445

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,974,963
    Expenses
    $36,377,369
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,743,906
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,403,671
    Expenses
    $29,705,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,308,139
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,300,787
    Expenses
    $30,473,165
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,435,050
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,848,816
    Expenses
    $33,897,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,376,703
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,409,613
    Expenses
    $32,581,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,349,458

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $0 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $7,066 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$3,621 to charity

  • DONOR SERVICES GROUP LLC

    $2,680 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$12,137 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.