New York · Nonprofit
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,195,754 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($625,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Anthology Film Archives does
Mission
Anthology Film Archives is a major center for independent, noncommercial and avant-garde cinema. The organization maintains and operates an internationally recognized facility for the physical preservation, exhibition and study of essential works of film and video art. In addition to its film preservation and public screening programs, the organization offers in-person artist appearances, lectures, tours and seminars for the public and visiting school groups; publishes program catalogs and books of scholarly research; and maintains an extensive research library that serves students, scholars and writers associated with universities, museums, archives and cinemas across the country and abroad. The organization's primary activities are to exhibit a broad program of historic and contemporary cinema; to preserve its own vast collection of rare and unique artist-made films; and to collect and publish documentation in this field.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Film and video exhibitions: the organization maintains and operates two theater spaces that are used for film and video exhibition on a daily basis. The organization's own film collection is presented throughout the course of each year, and is programmed to provide regular access to many of the masterpieces of film history, with a special emphasis on independent and avant-garde cinema. The organization also presents numerous films and film series curated from sources outside its own collection, including retrospectives, single- evening programs of experimental films old and new, and theatrical premiers of feature films and documentaries from all over the world.
$617,916 spent$359,913 earned by the program63% of program spendingFilm and video preservation and archiving: the organization stores approximately 20,000 films and 5,000 videos in its climate controlled vaults, many of which might no longer exist without the organization's efforts. The organization preserves dozens of films and videos each year, of varying format, length and project complexity, making new negatives, projection prints and digital copies of films that are unique and/or threatened by decay, insuring that these critically and culturally important works will be available to audiences and scholars for decades to come.
$297,026 spent30% of program spendingLibrary and research: the organization's library houses the most extensive collection of research and archival paper materials related to avant-garde and experimental cinema in the country (and perhaps the world). These collections are available by appointment, and have been widely accessed by students, scholars, professors, writers and curators as a unique resource in the field. The organization is a nonlending library, but offers photocopy facilities and is building a digital image database of its rare paper materials that will be universally accessible online. In 2026, the organization plans to begin construction to expand its facilities, featuring a new annex addition adjacent to its existing historic building. The new facility will greatly expand public access, along with the forthcoming collections website.
$41,587 spent4% of program spendingPublications and reproductions: internationally renowned for its dedication to the history of innovative, avant-garde and experimental cinema, the organization publishes educational catalogs and books in the field, which would have no other prospects for publication because of the highly specialized subject matter. The organization's publications are sold to college and university bookstores, and directly to teachers, students and the general public for research and study purposes.
$21,110 spent$46,390 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $977,639.
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 $3.0M to $3.5M (+19%).
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 3% · 2018 8% · 2019 6% · 2020 11% · 2021 40% · 2022 47% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
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.
Chief executive
John Mhiripiri
Executive director
Board chair
Sotirios Kotoulas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $74k → $258k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 55%; 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 74% · 2018 93% · 2019 30% · 2020 27% · 2021 44% · 2022 70% · 2023 48% — 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 ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $366k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$756k
- National Endowment for the Arts$295k
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 ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: 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 ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES?
- ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,195,754 to it, the largest being THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION ($625,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,195,754 in grants to ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES?
- THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 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 42 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