New York · Nonprofit
CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC
CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $621,000 to it, the largest being DEVONWOOD FOUNDATION 009606-007 ($621,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $621k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Cinema Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Cinema conservancy's mission is to support third world newsreel, d/b/a camera news, inc. And individual members of its charitable class to enrich film culture by providing production services and consultation to emerging filmmakers as well as restoring, preserving, selling, and exhibiting american independent films, past and present.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Cinema conservancy continued to fulfill its mission bysupporting third world newsreel, d/b/a camera news, inc.and individual members of its charitable class. It supported independent cinema production preservation and exhibition by premiering alex ross perry's "videoheaven" at festivals and exhibiting the film in over 50 theaters across the us. Cinema conservancy also continued to archive the work of manfred kirchheimer and deliver it to educational platforms. Cinema conservancy continued to exhibited sedat pakay's "james baldwin: from another place and a companion film of outtakes in collaboration with yale film archive.
$146,269 spentof which $14,510 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,269.
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 2024 to 2025, from $89k to $20k (−77%).
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.
98% of CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Andrew Adair
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.
From the IRS filings of CINEMA CONSERVANCY 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.
Where its funders are
CINEMA CONSERVANCY 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. 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
CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC's revenue fell 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CINEMA CONSERVANCY 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 CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC?
- CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $621,000 to it, the largest being DEVONWOOD FOUNDATION 009606-007 ($621,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $621,000 in grants to CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINEMA CONSERVANCY INC?
- DEVONWOOD FOUNDATION 009606-007 is the largest funder on record, with $621,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINEMA CONSERVANCY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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