San Francisco Art and Film Program
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Arts and cultural education.The purpose of the San Francisco Art and Film Program (SFAFP) is to provide middle, high school and college students from a wide spectrum of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds with artistic, cultural and intellectual activities in order to fill critical gaps in arts enrichment not addressed by San Francisco Bay Area school districts.The program plays an innovative social service role for San Francisco's youth by providing positive, intellectually stimulating and socially engaging activities outside of school during a time when risks to urban teenagers are both great and ubiquitous.
- Income
- $156,266
- Spending
- $145,717
- Reserves
- 2.5 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 99%
- Highest pay
- $30,000, executive dir.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Fair: 64 out of 100. Higher than 37% of charities in its peer group (youth development, under $250k).
Reserves
10 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 2.5 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 7% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 7% of income.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $130,005 spent. The school year ending in June 2025 marked San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers 32nd year of offering Bay Area students free access to arts programming. We were able to serve over 650 students, primarily coming from public high schools in San Francisco. CINE CLUBClassic films were held at The Randall Museum on Fridays. Attendance was free and ranged from 40 to 80 students, plus mentors, parents and alumni. Students were introduced the film and its director before beginning each screening. Cine Club films are selected to give students a wide background in the history of serious film and to thrill and excite them about the scope and breath of great filmmaking. The discussions help students explore their ideas in depth. Students are encouraged to share their questions, personal observations, likes and dislikes.Our annual film essay contest was held with cash prizes for the best essays on films screened in Cine Club that year.ART SATURDAYStudents met bi-monthly to tour art galleries and museums or special cultural events with mentors. Following the tour students discussed their experience over a lunch provided by SF Art and Film. Destinations included SFMOMA, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Minnesota Street Project, the Exploratorium, the Silent Film Festival, and downtown SF art galleries.Art Saturday is free of charge and open to any student who is interested in attending. It offers a perfect way for students, especially those from outside San Francisco, to become more familiar and relaxed about moving around the city. It is also an opportunity for students from different schools to meet and make friendships through shared interest in art.FREE TICKETSThroughout the year Art & Film is able to offer free seats to a variety of cultural events. All middle school, high school and college students are eligible. These seats are donated by the cultural institutions, many of which have worked with us since our inception in 1993.Attendance ranged between 15 and 60 students depending on tickets available. Venues included the SF Symphony, the SF Opera, the SF Ballet, the American Conservatory Theater, Word for Word Theater Company, and various film festivals.FILM WORKSHOPEach workshop meeting ran approximately six hours long, during which students studied and discussed films, developed scripts and prepared their own film shoots. The Film Workshop is our only fee-based program, with 37% of the workshop students receiving scholarship funds. In the summer, we held our annual Summer Film Intensive with 18 students spending nine days studying great works of cinema and making their very first films. Our Film Workshop is offered annually is open to all Bay Area students, from late middle school through college. Each year, new students are introduced to the fundamentals of professional filmmaking while returning students refine and deepen their skills. Film professionals help students produce their own prize-winning films. The workshop acts as producer, helping students to build a portfolio of work that will help them get into film schools and develop a foundation of skills looking, seeing, thinking, doing - that will serve them throughout their careers. Students are given hands on experience in editing, lighting, photography and directing.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since October 1998.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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