Oregon · Nonprofit
Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre
Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,167,306 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($637,846). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre does
Mission
Film forever northwest entertains, inspires, educates and connects our community through the art of film, while preserving the historic hollywood theatre and the world-class movie madness video collection. We offer a diverse array of film programming and initiatives that empower audiences to fully explore and participate in the rich cultural heritage of cinema.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Theatre programs - through its venues at the historic hollywood theatre, movie madness and hollywood theatres airport cinema at pdx, film forever northwest offers independent, foreign, classic and documentary films to the public to enhance the artistic, cultural and educational understanding of film. Sponsored film projects - film forever northwest assists oregon-based independent filmmakers as a nonprofit umbrella for film productions, offer editorial and distribution advice, and provides a venue for premieres of locally produced films.building operations - film forever northwest operates and is the caretaker of the historic hollywood theatre. The building is used for film screenings, community events and educational classes.
$4,910,741 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,910,741.
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 $5.7M to $8.8M (+55%).
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 10% · 2018 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 49% · 2022 41% · 2023 13% · 2024 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Jane Sage
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $90k → $215k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre’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
Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 27% · 2023 65% — 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
50% of Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
95% of Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $803k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre: 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 Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre?
- Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,167,306 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($637,846). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,167,306 in grants to Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $637,846 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 23 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