Maryland · Nonprofit
ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL
ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,262 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC ($355,550). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $661k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $834k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Annapolis Film Festival does
Mission
The vision of the Annapolis Film Festival is to establish annapolis as a center for filmmakers to showcase different global perspectives and independent thought to a variety of audiences through their work. The long term goal is to enhance growth, both culturally and economically, to the annapolis area and throughout the region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, the Annapolis Film Festival achieved several key milestones across programming, operations, marketing, and audience engagement. On the programming front, we successfully introduced the faith experience, a new thematic strand that drew diverse audiences and sparked meaningful dialogue. We also continued two of our most popular events-the women's panel and the director's panel-which brought together acclaimed industry voices for in-depth discussions that resonated with festivalgoers. Operationally, we streamlined our pass and ticket purchasing process online, creating a smoother, more user-friendly experience that encouraged advance sales and reduced on-site wait times. Our marketing efforts paid off with a dramatic increase in social media presence and audience response, expanding our reach and engagement across platforms. These combined efforts contributed to a 16% increase in attendance over the previous year, demonstrating strong and sustained growth for the festival.
$611,625 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $611,625.
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 2020 to 2021, from $110k to $243k (+121%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 16% · 2019 15% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 11% · 2023 16% · 2024 20% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of ANNAPOLIS 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 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $170k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 ANNAPOLIS 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
ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 68% · 2019 52% · 2020 59% · 2021 50% · 2022 62% · 2023 46% — 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
80% of ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
94% of ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ANNAPOLIS 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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 ANNAPOLIS 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 ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL?
- ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $834,262 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC ($355,550). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $834,262 in grants to ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $355,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 19 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