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ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC

ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being FLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$180k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$118k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Astoria Film Festival Inc does

Mission

Bring exposure education and connections to emerging filmmakers especially youth

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The organization organizes various festivals to celebrate creators work in short live action film animation and podcasting with screenings and panels There are separate festivals for youth under age 24 adults and students of the program usually ages 8-22 There are career panels and workshops during festivals to educate the community and help filmmakers meet industry professionals

    $34,000 spent
    16% of program spending
  2. The organization provides film making workshops in schools after school programs and to community centers for ages 8 and up There are workshops and Media Lab programs for ages 16-28 to learn about film making social media creation and podcasting and to connect with Industry Leaders The organization creates internships and workforce development programs for youth in media production social media creation and podcasting and advises local HS and college film and animation programs and connects them to Industry Professionals

    $174,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    84% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $208,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($64k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2024 Revenue 180 ($215k) Expenses 283 ($181k) Net assets 141 ($121k)2025 Revenue 151 ($180k) Expenses 286 ($183k) Net assets 138 ($118k)
202320242025
Revenue (151)Expenses (286)Net assets (138)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $85k to $121k (+41%).

$85k
$121k
$118k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’23
$34k
’24
−$3k
’25
8.0
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ASTORIA 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASTORIA 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 ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC?
ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being FLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS ($13,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,000 in grants to ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC.
Who is the largest funder of ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL INC?
FLUSHING COUNCIL ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASTORIA 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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