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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.

$921k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$182k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.9MEducation$261kInternational$11kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $485k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $405k
$19,740
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
George Eastman Museum$181,930
Pan Am Historical Fdn$60,830
Chicago Film Soc$56,710
Knox Cty Public Library TAMI$54,400
BAMPFA$51,610
UCLA Film & Television Archiv$42,740
Anthology Film Archives$42,570
Herbert Hoover Presidential L$36,080
National Museum of American H$30,120
Third World Newsreel$26,130
Texas Archive of the Moving I$23,820
Polish Highlanders Alliance F$20,000
University of Pennsylvania$20,000
Yale Film Archive$20,000
Washington University in St$19,860
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Documentary Educational Resou: $20k → 8%Pittsburgh Sound Image: $20k → 11%Moore College of Art and Desi: $20k → 22%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%Texas Archive of the Moving I: $24k → 10%Univ of South Carolina: $31k → 16%Smithsonian Library and Archi: $57k → 14%Herbert Hoover Presidential L: $36k → 8%Yale Film Archive: $22k → 12%Knox Cty Public Library TAMI: $71k → 12%Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $800k → 10%Chicago Film Archives: $38k → 14%National Museum of Natural Hi: $21k → 11%Appalshop Archive: $62k → 29%University of Pennsylvania: $20k → 22%BAMPFA: $52k → 10%San Francisco Silent Film Fes: $80k → 10%UCLA Film & Television Archiv: $162k → 14%George Eastman Museum: $182k → 14%Third World Newsreel: $26k → 17%Univ of South Carolina: $20k → 16%National Museum of American H: $30k → 14%Yale Film Archive: $20k → 12%Knox Cty Public Library TAMI: $54k → 12%Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $389k → 10%Berkeley Art Museum and Pacif: $21k → 10%Frameline: $20k → 10%UCLA Film & Television Archiv: $43k → 14%George Eastman Museum: $66k → 14%New York Public Library: $20k → 17%NMAAHC Smithsonian Inst: $30k → 14%Knox Cty Public Library TAMI: $29k → 12%Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $20k → 10%Pan Am Historical Fdn: $61k → 10%George Eastman Museum: $36k → 14%National Museum of American H: $22k → 14%Pan Am Historical Fdn: $52k → 10%Anthology Film Archives: $43k → 17%Association of Moving Image A: $37k → 14%NYU Fales Library: $32k → 17%Chicago Film Soc: $57k → 14%Chicago Film Soc: $39k → 14%Chicago Film Society: $38k → 14%Chicago Film Soc: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 32 repeat orgs$643k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
24

Total granted

$4.3M
$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalSocial ScienceAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GE
    GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $570k · revenue +17%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $349k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    Chicago Film Society
    5× · 2021–2025 · $201k · revenue +104% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    The Silent Film Festival
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue -41%
  • AI
    APPALSHOP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $62k · revenue +40%
  • FI
    Frameline Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -20%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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
5
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
6
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
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
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
9
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
10
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anthology Film Archives; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alaska Moving Image Preservat: $1,193,976 · OtherAlaska Moving Image PreservatREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $234,680 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAFriends of the Knox County Public Library: $195,890 · OtherFriends of the Knox County Public LibraryREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $113,330 · OtherASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS: $96,400 · OtherALASKA MOVING IMAGE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $91,810 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $87,620 · OtherUSC School of Medicine Greenville: $82,800 · Other+12 more: $204,260 · Other+12 moreGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM: $570,060 · Arts & CultureGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUMSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $348,900 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONChicago Film Society: $201,330 · Arts & CultureChicago Film SocietyPan Am Historical Foundation Inc: $143,210 · Arts & CulturePan Am Historical Foundation IncChicago Film Archives NFP: $87,740 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art: $77,930 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $691,720 · Arts & Culture+25 moreYale University: $95,490 · EducationYale Unive…New York University: $88,310 · EducationNew York U…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $60,000 · EducationThe New Yo…ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $42,570 · EducationANTHOLOGY …WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $38,260 · EducationWASHINGTON…CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $36,380 · EducationCRANBROOK …MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $19,450 · EducationHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $18,830 · Education+2 more: $18,790 · 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 Science
Other$2,300,766Arts & Culture$2,120,890Education$458,080Philanthropy$99,190Health$54,630International$49,050Social Science$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM: $570,060 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $348,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Film Society: $201,330 over 5y, 53% of budgetFriends of the Knox County Public Library: $195,890 over 5y, 84% of budgetPan Am Historical Foundation Inc: $143,210 over 4y, 31% of budgetASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS: $96,400 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetYale University: $95,490 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA MOVING IMAGE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $91,810 over 5y, 96% of budgetNew York University: $88,310 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Film Archives NFP: $87,740 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetThe Silent Film Festival: $80,090 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $77,930 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMERA NEWS INC: $68,170 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $63,180 over 5y, 0.2% 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 budgetFilipino American Historical Society of Chicago: $56,190 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $54,710 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $54,630 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $49,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: $42,570 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH SOUND AND IMAGE: $42,410 over 3y, 78% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $38,260 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $36,560 over 3y, 0.0% 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: $31,910 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Archive of the Moving Image: $23,820 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFrameline Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Film Preservation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Film Preservation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home