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CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC

EIN 34-1262368 CLEVELAND, OH

Revenue 2024
$2,023,208
Expenses 2024
$2,724,189

Program services were 73.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A31Z
Classification
1200
Street
2400 ORANGE AVE UNIT 5146

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 CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY IS A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE ARTISTICALLY AND CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT FILM ARTS THROUGH EDUCATION AND EXHIBITION TO ENRICH THE LIFE OF THE CLEVELAND, OHIO COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE ARTISTICALLY AND CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT FILM ARTS THROUGH EDUCATION AND EXHIBITION TO ENRICH LIFE OF THE CLEVELAND, OHIO COMMUNITY.

  • THE 49TH CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (CIFF49) WAS PRESENTED IN HYBRID FORM OF BEING IN-PERSON AND ONLINE. THE FESTIVAL TOOK PLACE MARCH 27-APRIL 5, 2025 IN PERSON AT PLAYHOUSE SQUARE AND THEN FROM APRIL 6-13, 2025 ONLINE. THE FESTIVAL SHOWCASED 104 FEATURE FILMS AND 198 SHORT FILMS, REPRESENTING 60 COUNTRIES. THE FESTIVAL WELCOMED 60,620 FILM ENTHUSIASTS IN PERSON AND VIRTUALLY, AND HOSTED 340 FILMMAKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. INCLUDED WERE 3,239 STUDENTS FROM 74 SCHOOLS IN NORTHEAST OHIO WHO TOOK PART IN FILMSLAM, THE FESTIVAL'S OLDEST EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THOSE IN GRADES 5-12.

    Expenses $2,012,055 · Grants $128,580 · Revenue $555,098

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.

  • BRETT ALTIER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRIS SW BLAKE

    VP OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAC CLOUGH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM COOK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM DAVIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA DURST

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLEEN FISHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE FOLEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHAR FOWLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JERRY FRANTZ

    VP OF STRATEGIC PLANNING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL GARVEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEBRA S GOLD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK HACKETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINE HICKEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DION HUDNALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAMELA LEROSE

    VP OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GREGG LEVINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE MARINUCCI

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LEILANI MARSHALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KERRY MCCORMACK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERICA MERRITT

    VP OF BOARD ENGAGEMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TODD MESEK

    VP OF MARKETING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYNN MILLINER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NADINE NANA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC PATRICK

    DIRECTOR

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,023,208
    Expenses
    $2,724,189
    Contributions
    $1,479,068
    Grants paid
    $128,580
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,503,270
    Expenses
    $3,170,567
    Contributions
    $1,912,134
    Grants paid
    $139,683
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,421,575
    Expenses
    $3,128,400
    Contributions
    $1,930,025
    Grants paid
    $131,500

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,636,284
    Expenses
    $2,824,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,559,299

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,420,704
    Expenses
    $1,669,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,929,525

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,308,982
    Expenses
    $2,156,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,257,260

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,502,356
    Expenses
    $3,521,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,784,430

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,300,711
    Expenses
    $3,438,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,794,621

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,371,474
    Expenses
    $3,287,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,997,364

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,316,743
    Expenses
    $3,160,393
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,842,615

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

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 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.