California · Nonprofit
3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM
3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,000 to it, the largest being LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $123k
What 3rd I South Asian Independent Film does
Mission
3rd i Films is committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through independent film. We showcase films from lndia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the global South Asian Diaspora. To accomplish our mission we organize an annual film festival, year-round screenings and educational programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
3rd i's 23rd Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival took place Oct 10-12 in theaters with filmmaker Q&A. Audiences could purchase low priced tickets for narrative and documentary features and shorts from South Asia and its Diaspora, including stories from India, Pakistan, France, UK, Canada, and the USA. The annual festival and year round programs drew approximately 5,000 attendees. An estimated 80% of the audience members are from the diverse Bay Area South Asian communities. The Festival and year round programs were promoted and presented in collaboration with Bay Area arts and South Asian community organizations. Reaching out to diverse segments of the Bay Area and South Asian communities, the events generate discussions around South Asian LGBTQ, women and youth issues, social justice, and civil rights depicted in South Asian cinema.
$124,791 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $124,791.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $89k to $144k (+62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
86% of 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $14k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
69% of 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM?
- 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,000 to it, the largest being LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $142,000 in grants to 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM?
- LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 3RD I SOUTH ASIAN INDEPENDENT FILM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing