Washington · Nonprofit
BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL
BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,247 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $163k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $144k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Bellingham Intl Film Festival does
Mission
Showcasing films directed by women through festivals
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The four-day in person film festival took place April 24-April 27 followed by the 10-day online version of the film festival May 1-11 with 27 films, Question & Answer sessions with directors, and educational script writing panel discussions with filmmakers and networking events including a directors' brunch for filmmakers and social events for audience members.In addition, the festival curated and presented an exhibit of 55 women artists from throughout the Pacific Northwest that coincided with the festival. Poets and writers were also invited to submit work inspired by and in response to the 2025 festival films. Submissions were reviewed and selected for a poetry anthology published in collaboration with the literary press, Ravenna Press. Special screenings presented during the year included a film for a Dance Film series, Black History Month and International Women's Day. CASCADIA also was a community partner for an outdoor silent movie in the summer with the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra and the Pickford Film Center. A special screening was also presented at Western Washington University during Native American Heritage Month free for students with a presentation…
$157,105 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $157,105.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $37k to $92k (+149%).
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.
80% of BELLINGHAM INTL 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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cheryl Crooks
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 BELLINGHAM INTL 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
BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% 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
97% of BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BELLINGHAM INTL 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
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In Washington
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELLINGHAM INTL 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 BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL?
- BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL (Washington) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,247 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $144,247 in grants to BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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