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FILM FESTIVAL ALLIANCE

EIN 47-3298973 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2025
$181,800
Expenses 2025
$233,494

Program services were 75.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A01
Classification
1200
Street
1250 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 700

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).

Other organizations at this address

21 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 700). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE FILM FESTIVAL ALLIANCE PROVIDES A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM FOR MEMBERS TO DEVELOP AND SHARE OPERATIONAL AND CURATORIAL EFFICIENCIES, SET PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS, AND ESTABLISH BEST PRACTICES. THE ALLIANCE WORKS YEAR-ROUND TO CELEBRATE AND SUPPORT THE ART OF FILM BY CONNECTING FESTIVAL PROFESSIONALS WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH THE GREATER FILMMAKING COMMUNITY, CREATING A SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PRESENTATION OF FILM AND MEDIA PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FILM FESTIVAL ALLIANCE PROVIDES A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM FOR MEMBERS TO DEVELOP AND SHARE OPERATIONAL AND CURATORIAL EFFICIENCIES, SET PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS, AND ESTABLISH BEST PRACTICES. THE ALLIANCE WORKS YEAR-ROUND TO CELEBRATE AND SUPPORT THE ART OF FILM BY CONNECTING FESTIVAL PROFESSIONALS WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH THE GREATER FILMING COMMUNITY, CREATING A SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PRESENTATION OF FILM AND MEDIA PROGRAMS.

  • PRODUCTION OF INDIE EXHIBITORS CONFERENCE TO CONVERGE MEMBER AND ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS TO DISCUSS BEST PRACTICES WITHIN THE INDUSTRY AND TO OFFER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR FILM FESTIVAL ASSOCIATES.

    Expenses $1,353 · Revenue $17,888

  • PRODUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFERINGS INCLUDING WEBINARS, NETWORKING EVENTS AND COLLABORATION WITH OTHER FILM ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $175,246 · Revenue $55,959

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Karen Cararelli

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathryn Spitz Cohan

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Albert Chow

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jamie Webb

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christopher Racster

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Carley Callahan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Melissa Simpson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ben Stilp

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sarah Escalante

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Beth Seymour

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Timothy Gordon

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nk Gutierrez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Crickett Rumley

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jessica Chriesman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kristen Heller

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Larry Laboe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Justice Obiaya

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mallory Martin

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Barbara Twist

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $82,050
    From this org
    $82,050
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $181,800
    Expenses
    $233,494
    Contributions
    $107,925
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $625,028
    Expenses
    $528,493
    Contributions
    $166,802
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $141,976
    Expenses
    $170,577
    Contributions
    $92,695
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $195,765
    Expenses
    $201,038
    Contributions
    $120,833
    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
    $235,334
    Expenses
    $179,264
    Assets (EOY)
    $230,655
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $112,552
    Expenses
    $101,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,237
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $111,818
    Expenses
    $74,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $110,521
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $100,892
    Expenses
    $63,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,013
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $40,665
    Expenses
    $28,431
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,170
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $29,684
    Expenses
    $33,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,756

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.

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.