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National Film Preservation Foundation
The NFPF is a nonprofit organization established in the District of Columbia resulting from an Act of Congress in order to preserve and make publicly accessible our nations film heritage. The NFPF works with archives to preserve American films and improve access for education and exhibition.
- $921k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,740
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $181,930
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations National Film Preservation Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $877k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $666k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.0M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $571k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $585k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $800k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $389k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Eastman Museum | $570,060 | 5 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $348,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $234,680 | 5 | n/a |
| Chicago Film Society | $201,330 | 5 | 53% |
| Friends of the Knox County Public Library | $195,890 | 5 | 84% |
| Pan Am Historical Foundation Inc | $143,210 | 4 | 31% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $113,330 | 4 | n/a |
| Association of Moving Image Archivists | $96,400 | 4 | 5% |
| Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association | $91,810 | 5 | 96% |
| New York University | $88,310 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 64 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
National Film Preservation Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Academy Foundation · California Humanities · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Compare National Film Preservation Foundation with peer funders
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About National Film Preservation Foundation
- How much does National Film Preservation Foundation give?
- National Film Preservation Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $921,370 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does National Film Preservation Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Education (6%), International (0%).
- Who are National Film Preservation Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: George Eastman Museum ($570k), Smithsonian Institution ($349k), Regents Univ of California ($235k).
- Does National Film Preservation Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Film Preservation Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Academy Foundation, California Humanities, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is National Film Preservation Foundation based?
- National Film Preservation Foundation is based in CA.
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