Pacific Film Foundation

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Pacific Film Foundation

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501(c)(3) organization

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16144 ALCIMA AVE

Pacific Plsds CA 90272-2408

Pacific Plsds CA | IRS ruling year: 2003 | EIN: 57-1175341

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IRS Published Data (Business Master File) - Data Available

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Foundation Status:

Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)

Affiliation:

Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)

Data Sources (IRS Forms 990) - Data Available

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Impact & Measurement

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Pacific Film Foundation cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Measurement methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.

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Culture & Community

Not Currently Scored

Pacific Film Foundation cannot currently be evaluated by our Culture & Community methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its Constituent Feedback or Equity Practices strategies.

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Leadership & Adaptability

Score

90

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Mission

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Mission

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The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission

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Vision

10/10 points

Vision

10/10 points

The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.

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Goals

20/20 points

Goals

20/20 points

The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.

Goal One: Pacific Film Foundation (PFF) plans to increase income to $250,000+ for 2022.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: PFF is selling our documentary films with instructional resource kits to a growing educational market for PPR (Public Performance Rights) and/or DSL (Digital Site License) packages @$300 to $500.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Goal Three: PFF is marketing an online course called SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION (IMC) to individual students and marketing communication employees of major brands @$365 tuition.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Leadership Development

15/15 points

Leadership Development

15/15 points

The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development

Describe an investment in leadership

Since 2020, PFF has iInvested in bringing aboard graduate interns who were at one time students of Joe Hartnett at UCLAx. Having earned their Certificates in Marketing with specialization in Digital Marketing, each young woman applied for and received the right to work at PFF in a leadership development capacity involving many aspects of the foundation, its productions, its marketing, and its distribution. The most recent of these interns joined our staff in March 2021. She works remotely from Mumbai, India (we have several documentaries in development in the Asia-Pacific region.)

Mobilizing for Mission

15/15 points

Mobilizing for Mission

15/15 points

The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

Strategic Partnerships
Networks of Collective Impact Efforts
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

PFF has strategic partnerships with: - Peripheral Vision PDX (a collaboration on the documentary film, HIGH EAGLE - The Pershing Foundation - The American Society of Pershing Rifles - The American Cancer Society - The American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy PFF engages in thought leadership activities such as showing our films at festivals, special events, and scheduled screenings. PFF partners with veterans’ organizations whose members find meaning from our military history documentaries, Pershing’s Paths of Glory and With One Tied Hand PFF participates with the United Nations, with particular attention to the 17 Sustainable Global Development Goals PFF raises awareness of our mission and cause through our Website, https://pacificfilmfoundation.org which is in turn supported by a Google Grant enabling our Adwords agency, NonProfit Megaphone to drive significant traffic to the site

Adaptability Story

30/30 points

Adaptability Story

30/30 points

The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.

During the first COVID-19 Pandemic year of 2020, Pacific Film Foundation (PFF) did a thorough Situation Analysis, which determined that we needed to upgrade our online presence with a new, more useful platform. We decided to retain Digital Impact Solutions, which applied their "Funnel Strategy" to enable a far more responsive, interactive, and dynamically evolving platform. The site was launched in the First Quarter of 2021, at https://pacificfilmfoundation.org. It's a documentary film/tv series hub with dedicated "Channels,” generating global audience engagement to help achieve specific United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with particular attention to categories where PFF has demonstrated expertise: #3 Good Health – Focus on Gene Therapies #5 Gender Equality – Focus on our TV Series, Female & Finally Free #13 Climate Action – Focus on Educating Marketers and Global Brands in Marketing Sustainability #16 Peace & Justice – Focus on Civil Rights and Social Justice #17 Partnerships for the Goals – Focus on Sustainable Tourism Our focus is to empower more individuals and organizations to develop, produce, and distribute films, television series. Our upgraded Website is supported by a Google Adwords Grant managed by the digital advertising agency, NonProfit Megaphone which is now able to invest $10,000 per month in click-throughs to drive interested users to the Website.

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