Colorado · Public charity
Denver Film Society
The mission of the DENVER FILM SOCIETY is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. We strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the film-going experience for regional audiences; to provide a showcase for international cinema that…
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2026
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $34,410
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $1,290,109
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 5
- Total assets, FY2026
- $18M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 39% of the organizations Denver Film Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $812k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 23 | $3.5M | 48% |
| FY2025 | 18 | $2.4M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $2.3M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $2.1M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $1.5M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $1.2M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.2M | 89% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $876k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.
Arts & Culture$5.8MScience & Tech$4.1MCivil Rights$1.8MYouth Development$1.8MPhilanthropy$923kSocial Science$295kReligion$172kCommunity Improvement$59kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
LA
GA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exposure Labs | $4,586,793 | 6 | n/a |
| Social Dilemma (AKA Social Media Project) | $2,380,850 | 3 | n/a |
| Possibilities in America LLC | $1,807,209 | 2 | n/a |
| I Was Born This Way Production LLC | $1,040,268 | 5 | n/a |
| Braiding Pictures LLC | $1,030,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Wonder LLC | $915,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Chasing Twice LLC | $862,805 | 3 | n/a |
| The Holly | $326,038 | 3 | n/a |
| The Capitalism Dilemma LLC | $295,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rino Art District | $148,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exposure Labs | $4,586,793 | 6 | n/a |
| Social Dilemma (AKA Social Media Project) | $2,380,850 | 3 | n/a |
| Possibilities in America LLC | $1,807,209 | 2 | n/a |
| I Was Born This Way Production LLC | $1,040,268 | 5 | n/a |
| Braiding Pictures LLC | $1,030,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Wonder LLC | $915,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Chasing Twice LLC | $862,805 | 3 | n/a |
| The Holly | $326,038 | 3 | n/a |
| The Capitalism Dilemma LLC | $295,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rino Art District | $148,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Purpose Media | $126,642 | 5 | n/a |
| Remembering Us LLC | $119,502 | 1 | n/a |
| This is Not Who We Are Landlocked Films | $116,897 | 5 | n/a |
| Fox Tale Films (Intrepid Adevntures LLC) | $103,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Listen Productions (Untitled) | $94,850 | 3 | n/a |
| The Holly | $92,745 | 2 | n/a |
| Imperfectly Perfect Fast Forward Films LLC | $77,107 | 3 | n/a |
| Sparkle Motion Films LLC | $64,905 | 5 | n/a |
| Rabbit Foot Entertainment | $60,637 | 1 | n/a |
| Exposure Productions LLC | $60,440 | 2 | n/a |
| Echostory LLC | $51,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Coal Ash Documentary LLC | $50,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Switchboard Strategies LLC | $42,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cinema | $39,522 | 1 | n/a |
| Landlock Films | $37,547 | 3 | n/a |
| Heavenly Wickedness LLC | $37,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Pando Productions LLC | $33,301 | 1 | n/a |
| Built Beautiful | $31,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Cinema Toast House House LLC | $30,690 | 1 | n/a |
| Lazy Pickle Productions | $29,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Jungle Film Inc | $23,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Mike Shum Productions LLC | $23,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Listen Productions | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Listen Ventures LLC | $18,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Demand Horizon LLC | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| King of in Between LLC | $16,670 | 2 | n/a |
| Anger Never Dies LLC | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Entertainment 2 Affect Change | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| From The Heart Productions | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Film Independent | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Uptown 6 Productions | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shearer Triola LLC | $14,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Jackrabbit Film LLC | $13,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Support Cinema | $11,753 | 1 | n/a |
| Eight16 Creative | $10,473 | 1 | n/a |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Film Forum | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Legacy of the Fighting Filipinos | $9,230 | 1 | n/a |
| Api Arts & Outreach Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 15% |
| Stormbending Entertainment LLC | $7,235 | 1 | n/a |
| No Credits Productions LLC | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Tenth Muse Films Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Denver Film Society supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.
About Denver Film Society
- How much does Denver Film Society give?
- Denver Film Society reported 24 grants totaling $3,492,641 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Denver Film Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Science & Tech (27%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Denver Film Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Exposure Labs ($4.6M), Social Dilemma (AKA Social Media Project) ($2.4M), Possibilities in America LLC ($1.8M).
- Does Denver Film Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Denver Film Society based?
- Denver Film Society is based in CO.
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