Michigan · Nonprofit
COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS
COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,910 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($179,910). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $190k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Compass College of Cinematic Arts does
Mission
Compass college of cinemaric arts (ccca) is a premier, faith-based film college set in a unique, conservatory-like environment. Ccca is a 501c)3 non-profit organization and is accredited by the accrediting commission of career schools and colleges (accsc). Degrees authorized to be conferred are as follows: bachelor of fine arts in cinematic and media arts. Bachelor degree programs must consist of at least 120 semester credit hours or equivalent of collegiate level study.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Teaching program: teach post high school students major aspects of filmmaking and mentor them in the christian principles of the bible. Students enrolled in the program will acquire the knowledge and abilities necessary to work in the film industry. They will feel comfortable and prepared to initiate their own projects or work for a company. Students will cultivate the critical thinking skills necessary to intelligently evaluate projects. The school offers 1 program which is the equivalent of 4 academic years. Recruit students who may be looking for a film school following their graduation from high school.
$101,406 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $101,406.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.4M to $2.5M (−27%).
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 18% · 2021 37% · 2022 49% · 2023 37% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Myron Sawyer Jr
Chairman/treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS’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
COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 92% · 2022 98% · 2023 90% — 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
95% of COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k 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
COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS's revenue fell 98% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Education$1.3M
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 COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS: 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 COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS?
- COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,910 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($179,910). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $189,910 in grants to COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $179,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASS COLLEGE OF CINEMATIC ARTS 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 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