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American Cinematheque

The AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE believes that cinema is a communal experience with the power to entertain, enlighten and inspire. We build a diverse and engaged film community through immersive film curation, conversation, and presentation. We bridge the filmmaker to the audience and film history to its future.

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$38,785
Largest grant, FY2025
$38,785
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$18M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California Fire Foundation$38,7851n/a
Motion Picture and Television Fund$38,7841n/a

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About American Cinematheque

How much does American Cinematheque give?
American Cinematheque reported 2 grants totaling $77,569 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
Who are American Cinematheque's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: California Fire Foundation ($39k), Motion Picture and Television Fund ($39k).
Where is American Cinematheque based?
American Cinematheque is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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