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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.

$697k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.9MEducation$261kInternational$11kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $506k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
$18,270
Median grant
17
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
George Eastman Museum$65,720
Smithsonian Library and Archi$57,340
Chicago Film Society$37,590
University of California San$37,450
Association of Moving Image A$36,800
NYU Fales Library$32,370
Univ of South Carolina$31,400
Knox Cty Public Library TAMI$29,090
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacif$20,860
National Museum of African Ar$20,000
New York Public Library$20,000
NMAAHC Smithsonian Inst$20,000
Yale University$19,690
Chicago Film Archives$19,670
Phoenix Arts Alliance$19,660
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Documentary Educational Resou: $20k → 8%Pittsburgh Sound Image: $20k → 11%Moore College of Art and Desi: $20k → 22%Canyon Cinema Foundation: $18k → 10%Visual Communications: $20k → 14%University of California San: $37k → 14%George Eastman Museum: $220k → 14%Third World Newsreel: $42k → 17%Roger Tory Peterson Institute: $20k → 18%Univ of South Carolina: $31k → 16%Smithsonian Library and Archi: $57k → 14%Hartford Public Library: $19k → 11%Yale Film Archive: $22k → 12%Knox Cty Public Library TAMI: $71k → 12%Huna Heritage Foundation: $19k → 8%Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $800k → 10%Chicago Film Archives: $38k → 14%National Museum of Natural Hi: $21k → 11%Appalshop Archive: $62k → 29%Berkeley Art Museum and Pacif: $21k → 10%San Francisco Silent Film Fes: $80k → 10%UCLA Film & Television Archiv: $162k → 14%George Eastman Museum: $66k → 14%New York Public Library: $20k → 17%Univ of South Carolina: $20k → 16%NMAAHC Smithsonian Inst: $30k → 14%Yale University: $20k → 12%Knox Cty Public Library TAMI: $29k → 12%Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $389k → 10%Chicago Film Archives: $20k → 14%BAMPFA: $20k → 10%Frameline: $20k → 10%George Eastman Museum: $36k → 14%New York Public Library: $20k → 17%National Museum of American H: $22k → 14%Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $20k → 10%Pan Am Historical Fdn: $52k → 10%NYU Fales Library: $32k → 17%NMAAHC Smithsonian Inst: $20k → 14%Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $19k → 10%Chicago Film Soc: $39k → 14%Association of Moving Image A: $37k → 14%Center for Folklife and Cultu: $19k → 14%Chicago Film Society: $38k → 14%Filipino American Historical: $18k → 14%Natl Geographic Soc: $19k → 14%Chicago Film Soc: $30k → 14%Natl Gallery of Art: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 31 repeat orgs$498k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
24

Total granted

$3.6M
$488k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+7%

Still filing today

74%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalSocial ScienceAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GE
    GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $388k · revenue +17%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $305k · revenue +8%
  • CF
    Chicago Film Society
    4× · 2021–2024 · $145k · revenue +104% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    The Silent Film Festival
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue -13%
  • AI
    APPALSHOP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $62k · revenue +95%
  • CN
    CAMERA NEWS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue -29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
American Museum of the Moving Image

See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
6
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
7
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
8
Anthology Film Archives

Anthology film archives is a major center for independent, noncommercial and avant-garde cinema. the organization maintains and operates an internationally recognized facility for the physical preservation, exhibition and study of…

Education
9
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
10
Academy Museum Foundation

The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…

Arts & Culture
11
Berggruen Institute
Education
12
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Huna Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsJewish Community Organizati…Local History MuseumsCommunity College Foundatio…Lgbtq+ Community SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsPublic Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,508

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Alaska Moving Image Preservat — $1,193,976 · OtherAlaska Moving Image PreservatREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $191,940 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAFriends of the Knox County Public Library — $141,490 · OtherFriends of the Knox County Public LibraryUSC School of Medicine Greenville — $82,800 · OtherASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS — $80,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — $74,900 · OtherALASKA MOVING IMAGE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $73,110 · Other+7 more — $167,870 · Other+7 moreGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $388,130 · Arts & CultureGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUMSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $305,460 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONChicago Film Society — $144,620 · Arts & CultureChicago Film SocietyPan Am Historical Foundation Inc — $82,380 · Arts & CultureChicago Film Archives NFP — $68,000 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INC — $62,120 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art — $59,970 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $488,120 · Arts & Culture+21 moreNew York University — $79,560 · EducationNew York …Yale University — $75,490 · EducationYale Univ…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $60,000 · EducationThe New Y…CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $36,380 · EducationCRANBROOK…MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $20,000 · EducationMOORE COL…NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $19,450 · EducationNATIONAL …HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $18,830 · EducationHARTFORD …WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $18,400 · EducationFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $12,340 · Education+1 more — $6,450 · EducationThe Silent Film Festival — $80,090 · PhilanthropyHuna Heritage Foundation — $19,100 · PhilanthropyPaso del Norte Community Foundation — $54,630 · HealthThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $49,050 · InternationalVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $20,000 · Social ScienceWildlife Conservation Society — $10,250 · Animals
Other$2,006,486Arts & Culture$1,598,800Education$346,900Philanthropy$99,190Health$54,630International$49,050Social Science$20,000Animals$10,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $388,130 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $305,460 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Film Society — $144,620 over 4y, 53% of budgetFriends of the Knox County Public Library — $141,490 over 4y, 84% of budgetPan Am Historical Foundation Inc — $82,380 over 3y, 21% of budgetASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS — $80,400 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetThe Silent Film Festival — $80,090 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNew York University — $79,560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $75,490 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA MOVING IMAGE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $73,110 over 4y, 96% of budgetChicago Film Archives NFP — $68,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC — $62,120 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $59,970 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation — $54,630 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — $51,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $49,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $47,540 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH SOUND AND IMAGE — $42,410 over 3y, 78% of budgetCAMERA NEWS INC — $42,040 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFilipino American Historical Society of Chicago — $36,540 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $36,380 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA — $32,450 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $26,680 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $21,920 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrameline Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $19,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuna Heritage Foundation — $19,100 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION — $18,930 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $18,830 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $18,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanyon Cinema Foundation — $18,370 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $17,870 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY — $17,420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS INC — $16,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $13,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $12,710 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $12,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX INC — $11,380 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC — $10,140 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAIRCRAFT CARRIER HORNET FOUNDATION — $7,720 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $6,990 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBOB MIZER FOUNDATION — $6,610 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $6,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Academy FoundationCalifornia HumanitiesThe Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Academy FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization National Film Preservation Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to National Film Preservation Foundation?

Find your warmest path to National Film Preservation Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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