Ohio · Nonprofit
FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS
FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,617 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($228,166). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $617k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $386k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Fevered Dreams Productions does
Mission
The mission of Fevered Dreams Productions is to recognize and celebrate talented filmmakers and their stories. Fevered Dreams Productions presents the annual chagrin documentary film festival. Through its exhibition, education, and community development programs, cdff educates audiences, provides recognition to emerging filmmakers, and promotes the creative economy of ohio's chagrin valley.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The 16th annual chagrin documentary film festival was held in october, 2025 both at in-person venues and a virtual format on the festival's cdff on demand streaming platform. There were 73 films representing 33 countries. Film awards were presented in categories such as human spirit, environmnetal, and social awareness. The event was enjoyed by 22,000 attendees from 29 states.
$332,219 spent$237,357 earned by the program100% of program spendingFevered Dreams Productions completed renovations on "cdff on the triangle", its permanent home in the village of chagrin falls in april 2024. The new headquarters includes space for film screenings, community gatherings, discussions and branded retail items. This new space includes a 36 seat film screening area and offers the community a year round chance to experience compelling documentaries they may have missed during the film festival.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $332,219.
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 2020 to 2021, from $507k to $1.1M (+108%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 10% · 2019 12% · 2020 32% · 2021 18% · 2022 1% · 2023 9% · 2024 9% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS’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. 1 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
Trish Sylvia Salahshour
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $105k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS’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
FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 72% · 2023 81% — 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
25% of FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
80% of FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS'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 $76k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $309k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
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 FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS: 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 FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS?
- FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,617 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($228,166). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $385,617 in grants to FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $228,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEVERED DREAMS PRODUCTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing