New York · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC
BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,578 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($26,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $-7015
What Brooklyn Filmshop Inc does
Mission
Founded in 2009, Filmshop is a nonprofit membership organization of independent filmmakers committed to developing new work through peer support and collaboration. Chapters in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Los Angeles and New Orleans meet weekly to workshop projects Making a film is a herculean endeavor. Filmshop is a community that makes the process much less solitary. When you go through similar challenges with fellow filmmakers, it makes the impossible that much less daunting. When you can ask a diverse community of working cinematographers, editors, writers, and directors to pitch in to your project, somehow financial, creative, and emotional challenges dissolve. We make films happen.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
285 Workshop Membership individuals benefitted being able to review the 285 film related works in progress of other members, as well as have their works in progress reviewed and appraised with constructive feedback. These works in progress consisted of documentary films, fiction films, film scripts, grant proposals, pitch decks, budgets, etc.
$16,706 spent61% of program spending179 General Membership individuals benefitted from the ability to share knowledge, collaborate, hire personnel and interface with 285 individuals participating in Workshop Membership.
$0 spent0% of program spending150+ public citizens benefitted from Filmshop's summer residency on Governors Island! Throughout the season, the Filmshop House buzzed with free to the public activities, featuring film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, and hands-on workshops led by our talented community members. Highlighting our residency was a retrospective exhibition showcasing Filmshop's evolution and impact over 24 years, raising awareness of Filmshop and its mission.
$3,175 spentof which $5,000 as grants12% of program spending100 public audience members benefitted from a ticketed live event screening of 10 themed short films produced by members specifically for this event.
$1,950 spent7% of program spending50 public audience members and 12 jury selected filmmakers benefitted from Filmshop's ticketed Breakthrough Series, which showcases a curated selection of our members' films in an intimate setting with festival programmers, distributors, and executive producers. Facilitating discussions centered around development and distribution, Breakthrough provides a forum for filmmakers to explore the next stages of their careers. After each project is presented, there will be a panel discussion with the filmmakers and an industry luminary.
$5,651 spent21% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,482.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1k to $985 (−17%).
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.
66% of BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Albert Beniada
Executive Director
Board chair
Theresa Loong
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $15k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BROOKLYN FILMSHOP 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
BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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.
Where its funders are
BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$19k
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 BROOKLYN FILMSHOP 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 New York
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 BROOKLYN FILMSHOP 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 BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC?
- BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,578 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($26,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,578 in grants to BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN FILMSHOP INC?
- The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc is the largest funder on record, with $26,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN FILMSHOP 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.
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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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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