Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC
BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,470 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $307k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $470k
- Net assets
- $194k
What Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative Inc does
Mission
The berkshire film and media collaborative (bfmc) creates educational, workforce and production opportunities in the film and media industry as an economic initiative for the western massachusetts region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bfmc continued its mission through educational programming, community partnerships, and support for local nonprofit and film initiatives. Through its youth film program, bfmc provided students in local public schools with hands-on filmmaking opportunities where they learn technical skills, collaboration and community engagement. Students created films addressing social issues important to them, followed by screenings and discussions with local youth-serving professionals.bfmc also continued its community film fund, which provides matching grants to smaller nonprofit organizations to create videos for their branding, marketing, and social media.
$262,353 spentof which $13,000 as grants$931 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $262,353.
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.
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 $25k to $186k (+632%).
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: 2023 4% · 2024 8% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Diane Pearlman
Executive director
Board chair
Karen Zink
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $63k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 79% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
69% of BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $146k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $325k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $82k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$82k
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 BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE 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 BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC?
- BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,470 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $470,470 in grants to BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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