Oklahoma · Nonprofit
DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC
DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,845 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($140,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $518k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Deadcenter Film Festival Inc does
Mission
Inspire, promote, and celebrate creativity and community through film.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Deadcenter produces an annual film festival to inspire, promotes and celebrates creativity and community through film. In 2025, the festival served 12,200 attendees through film screenings, panel discussions, and networking events over five days throughout the oklahoma city metro. Screenings included 187 independent films.deadcenter relies on more than 200 volunteers year-round and during the festival filling over 600 volunteer shifts. These volunteers support key areas including programming, box office operations, venue management, guest services and merchandise sales.
$820,535 spent$134,889 earned by the program92% of program spendingDeadcenter provides year-round programming to underserved communities, along with educational programming for high school students and technology centers across oklahoma. Through these programs, students receive resources and insight into the oklahoma film industry, including pathways for storytelling, production, and workforce development.in addition to its annual film festival, deadcenter hosts free continuum panel series and communityy screenings throughout the year. Deadcenter film works to create a virant, inclusive culture where emerging and established filmmakers are empowered to share bold, original stories that inspire, challenge, and unite audiences across oklahoma and beyond.
$76,181 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $896,716.
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 2021 to 2022, from $259k to $127k (−51%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Cacky Poarch
Executive director
Board chair
David Pasnau
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $41k → $124k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $617k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL 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
DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 56% · 2019 66% · 2020 44% · 2021 43% · 2022 50% · 2023 34% — 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
70% of DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% 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 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL 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 DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,845 to it, the largest being INASMUCH FOUNDATION ($140,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $517,845 in grants to DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- INASMUCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEADCENTER FILM FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 18 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