PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A31

Classification

1000

Street

1412 CHESTNUT 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

• PHILADELPHIA FILM CENTER: THE PHILADELPHIA FILM CENTER IS AN EXCITING PERFORMANCE VENUE IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN PHILADELPHIA FEATURING THE LARGEST SCREEN IN THE CITY. THE PHILADELPHIA FILM CENTER IS LOCATED AT BROAD AND CHESTNUT STREETS ON THE AVENUE OF THE ARTS AND HOSTS AN EXTENSIVE SLATE OF CURATED FILM SCREENINGS, FILM PREVIEWS AND PREMIERES, AND LIVE EVENTS IN TWO STATE-OF-THE-ART THEATERS.

  Expenses $948,689 · Revenue $1,219,754

• PFS BOURSE: THE PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY PROUDLY OPERATES AND PROGRAMS THE PFS BOURSE, A FIVE-SCREEN, 776-SEAT THEATER LOCATED IN THE HEART OF OLD CITY, PHILADELPHIA. PFS REOPENED THE FORMER RITZ AT THE BOURSE THEATER IN 2021 WITH PROGRAMMING FOCUSING ON CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED FIRST-RUN INDIE AND ART HOUSE FILMS ALONG WITH CURATED CONTENT. PRIOR TO THE REOPENING, THE PFS BOURSE UNDERWENT A COMPLETE RENOVATION INCLUDING AN INTERIOR FACELIFT, INSTALLATION OF 4K AND 2K LASER PROJECTORS AND 7.1 DOLBY DIGITAL SURROUND SOUND IN ALL FIVE THEATERS, AND AN UPDATED LOWER LOBBY CONCESSION AREA, ALL TRANSFORMING THE THEATER INTO A STATE-OF-THE-ART VENUE OPTIMAL FOR FILM PRESENTATION.

  Expenses $1,199,146 · Revenue $1,421,882

• PFS EAST: THE MOST RECENT THEATER UNDER PFS MANAGEMENT, THE PFS EAST IS A 2-SCREEN, 550-SEAT THEATER LOCATED IN OLD CITY, PHILADELPHIA, NEXT TO WELCOME PARK. ACQUIRED FOR USE IN OCTOBER OF 2022 FOR THE PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL, PFS PERMANENTLY REOPENED THE FORMER RITZ EAST IN NOVEMBER 2022 WITH A FOCUS ON FIRST-RUN BLOCKBUSTER AND PRESTIGE TITLES ALONGSIDE OCCASIONAL CURATED FILM SELECTIONS FROM PFS'S PROGRAMMING TEAM.

  Expenses $623,723 · Revenue $497,122

• PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL: EVERY OCTOBER, THE PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY HOSTS THE PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL WHICH GATHERS MORE THAN 25,000 DEDICATED FILM LOVERS AND SCORES OF TALENTED FILMMAKERS FOR ELEVEN EXCEPTIONAL DAYS OF CINEMATIC SPLENDOR. THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, PFS'S ARTISTIC TEAM SCOURS THE WORLD'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS FILM FESTIVALS - FROM SUNDANCE TO BERLIN, CANNES TO TORONTO - FOR THE YEAR'S MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING FILMS. THE FESTIVAL PRESENTS THESE FILMS AS WELL AS SELECTIONS FROM THE HUNDREDS OF SUBMITTED FILMS VIEWED BY FESTIVAL PROGRAMMERS, ALL ALONGSIDE EXCLUSIVE EVENTS WITH ACTORS, DIRECTORS, AND INDUSTRY GUESTS; VIP RECEPTIONS; AND MUCH MORE. AS A WORLD-CLASS FILM FESTIVAL, THE FESTIVAL REPRESENTS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE CITY AND REGION, ATTRACTING NEW AUDIENCES TO PFS AND THE FILM COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

  Expenses $20,952 · Revenue $551,521

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.

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

  $7,400,541

  Expenses

  $5,601,027

  Contributions

  $3,419,549

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,808,468

  Expenses

  $4,888,924

  Contributions

  $1,789,117

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,450,955

  Expenses

  $5,022,266

  Contributions

  $885,492

  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

  $4,122,591

  Expenses

  $3,940,910

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,922,707

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,097,757

  Expenses

  $3,933,213

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,029,651

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,864,072

  Expenses

  $2,098,830

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,572,689

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,307,740

  Expenses

  $3,304,078

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,598,321

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,600,157

  Expenses

  $4,263,567

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,139,876

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,771,565

  Expenses

  $3,968,084

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,045,629

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,638,671

  Expenses

  $3,976,191

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,478,557

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,434,421

  Expenses

  $3,529,394

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,159,962

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $13,330

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $12,340

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC

  $11,560

  2023 · OPERATIONS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $11,450

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $11,250

  2023 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• COZEN OCONNOR FOUNDATION INC

  $10,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION - UNRESTRICED TO SUPPORT NON-PROFITS MISSION.

• BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC

  $10,000

  2023 · NEXT GENERATION ANGELS

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $9,051

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $8,250

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

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