Alaska · Nonprofit
ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,000 to it, the largest being ELLSWORTH FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $160k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $248k
- Net assets
- $97k
What Anchorage International Film Festival does
Mission
To develop, promote and sustain independent films for alaskans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Aiff hosts the largest film festival in alaska, typically held during the first week in december to bring independent films to alaskans and to provide a venue for alaskan filmmakers to showcase their projects.
$65,989 spentof which $6,150 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,989.
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 2022 to 2023, from $47k to $79k (+69%).
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.
65% of ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’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. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $22k.
From the IRS filings of ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’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
ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 53% · 2022 78% · 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
95% of ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: 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 ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL?
- ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,000 to it, the largest being ELLSWORTH FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $248,000 in grants to ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL?
- ELLSWORTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing