New York · Nonprofit
AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC
AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,526 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($41,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $160k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $35k
What African Diaspora Film Festival Inc does
Mission
To advance public interest in and understanding of the cinema, about and related to the african diaspora. To expose the public to the works of established and emerging filmmakers through film festivals and other productions such as panel discussion, film series, outreach programs, and other activities. To provide filmmakers with a forum to expose their works to the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Film festival and other productions such as panel discussion, film series, outreach programs, and other activities
$148,662 spent$44,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $148,662.
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 2024 to 2025, from $27k to $35k (+29%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 51% · 2022 60% · 2023 57% · 2024 56% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC’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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $9k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC’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
AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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
AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of State$10k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC: 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 AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,526 to it, the largest being LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ($41,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $96,526 in grants to AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $41,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing