Michigan · Nonprofit
CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL
CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,625 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING ($125,125). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $192k
What Capital City Film Festival does
Mission
The Capital City Film Festival (ccff) is a multimedia showcase of independent films and live touring bands with engaging audiences in michigans capital city. It celebrates artists from around the world who share their craft while promoting and building on the cultural assets of our diverse locale.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Annual film festival
$167,545 spent$79,645 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $167,545.
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 2023 to 2024, from $101k to $204k (+103%).
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 75% · 2024 63% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of CAPITAL CITY 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
CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
95% 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 CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 56% — 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
100% of CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
Organizations like CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 CAPITAL CITY 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 CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL?
- CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,625 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING ($125,125). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $174,625 in grants to CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING is the largest funder on record, with $125,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 3 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