Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($305,050). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $605k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $561k
What Berkshire International Film Festival Corp does
Mission
The berkshire international film festival (biff) is for filmmakers and film lovers alike to be entertained, educated and inspired. Biff seeks to celebrate independent film and to recognize and pay tribute to accomplished artists on both sides of the (continued on schedule o) camera in the international, national and regional film community. Biff aims to provide filmmakers, producers, directors, writers and actors an environment to collaborate, present their work, and interact with each other and with film audiences. Specific priorities of the festival are to showcase the most challenging and topically relevant documentaries each year, and provide a platform for berkshire filmmakers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Biff showcased the latest in independent feature, documentary, short, and family films, and lively panel discussions focusing on filmmakers and talented artists from both sides of the camera. Biff also paid tribute to accomplished artists in the international, national, and regional film community.
$470,672 spent$152,490 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $470,672.
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 $298k to $461k (+55%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 7% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Anne Mclaughlin
Executive director
Board chair
Patricia Fili-Krushel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $68k → $147k.
5 of 23 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 BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% 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 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 29% · 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 30% — 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
53% of BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500 on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$500
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 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP: 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 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP?
- BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,073,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($305,050). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,073,400 in grants to BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $305,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP 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.
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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 23 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