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SILENT FILM FESTIVAL

EIN 94-3170215 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$655,912
Expenses 2024
$611,628

Program services were 57.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T99
Classification
1000
Street
1687 MARKET ST

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

SFSFF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the presentation and preservation of silent cinema, and the education of the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the presentation and preservation of silent cinema, and the education of the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.

  • The San Francisco Silent Film Festivals mission is to demonstrate the artistry, diversity, and enduring cultural value of silent movies with live musical accompaniment and to ensure that they are accessible to current and future audiences. We pursue this mission by partnering with international archives to fund and restore silent films as well as by supporting film preservation efforts through the exhibition of major restorations and archival prints. Throughout the year, we carefully curate high-quality presentations of silent films from the world's leading archives and educational programs that give our audience a more complete picture and a deeper understanding of the art form, its history, and current efforts to study, preserve, and exhibit these rare and vulnerable films. Reflecting the breadth and

    Expenses $351,254 · Revenue $97,084

  • diversity of silent-era filmmaking, SFSFFs programming is a lively and thought-provoking mix of American classics, lesser-known gems, rare and/or recently restored films, and important international work, all presented with live musical accompaniment by some of the world's finest practitioners of the art of putting music to film.

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Stacey Wisnia

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $147,032
    From this org
    $132,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,532
    Hours/week
    40

  • Anita Monga

    Artistic Director

    Total calculated
    $109,410
    From this org
    $108,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $660
    Hours/week
    40

  • Judy Wyler Sheldon

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mike Mashon

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dean Lewis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lee Tsiantis

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robin McRoskey Azevedo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Antonella Bonfanti

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William B Bond

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Owsley Brown III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Byrne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Glen S Miranker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ira M Resnick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marta Riggins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cynthia Sears

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $655,912
    Expenses
    $611,628
    Contributions
    $558,822
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $655,186
    Expenses
    $611,627
    Contributions
    $558,096
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $972,421
    Expenses
    $1,203,348
    Contributions
    $791,675
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,115,206
    Expenses
    $1,150,285
    Contributions
    $893,816
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $986,061
    Expenses
    $1,097,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $618,503

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $593,611
    Expenses
    $431,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $793,869

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $892,974
    Expenses
    $667,192
    Assets (EOY)
    $629,640

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $793,034
    Expenses
    $824,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $324,391

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,979
    Expenses
    $837,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $371,924

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $744,586
    Expenses
    $711,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $394,339

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $777,096
    Expenses
    $726,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $356,529

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $623,900
    Expenses
    $588,146
    Assets (EOY)
    $323,073

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $658,689
    Expenses
    $644,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $277,200

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $641,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $260,866

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.

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.