California · Nonprofit
AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION
AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,080 to it, the largest being THE RIGGIO FOUNDATION ($235,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $507k
- Net assets
- $68k
What African Environmental Film Foundation does
Mission
To make educational films highlighting the importance of preserving the african environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATIONAEFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1st Oct 2024- 30th Sept 2025The whole year has been taken up by the AEFF team with distribution negotiations, for a Tv agreement of TSAVO a MOMENT IN TIME, beginning with Nation Television. After more than a year was spent on this project it did not materialise with a Broadcast date. After numerous meetings and exchanges of correspondence, we had signed a Broadcast agreement. they did not continue discussions. No reason was given why they did not continue contact.We then investigated other African distribution outlets. Finally we settled on a company called Multichoice, an umbrella TV distribution company for several southern African countries. We discovered that they had just been bought by Canal+ (Canal Plus) a huge French film and media organisation, with worldwide contacts.. Multichoice operations were initially affected by this take over so they were slow to be able to deal with our offer of the series. However, with perseverance on both sides we have almost reached a position where we can go ahead.Multichoice have asked for some adjustments to the length of the series and we will shortly begin to make these…
$154,392 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $154,392.
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 2017 to 2018, from $385k to $793k (+106%).
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.
99% of AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Arne Glimcher
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $100k → $243k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION’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 ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 23% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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 ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION?
- AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,080 to it, the largest being THE RIGGIO FOUNDATION ($235,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $507,080 in grants to AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION?
- THE RIGGIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION 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 13 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