New York · Nonprofit
FILM LAB
FILM LAB (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,700 to it, the largest being TIGER BARON FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $250k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $0
What Film Lab does
Mission
Every time we all make a film, we climb a logistical, emotional, and financial mountain. Filmlab was established to make this process easier, cheaper, & more accessible to our community. We do this through our qualifications as a fiscal sponsor, our gear rental discounts with sales and rental houses as a not-for-profit, and our in-house resources covering everything standard in the spectrum of a professional production company: crew, gear, an annual insurance policy, office space, a screening room, and guidance . Our relationships with crew, performers, agencies, post-houses, and rental houses empowers every project we incubate. We aim to encourage a rigorous creative process with a focus on story-telling that is risky and experimental, to actively contribute to the diversification of the current climate in the entertainment industry, to foster a less divided film community, to challenge and disrupt common notions of what's commercially viable. To unify the brilliant independently floa
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
In 2018, we helped incubate over 30 low-budget short films, some of which have gone on to win awards at festivals, become Oscar nominee eligible, and premiere at The Whitney museum.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $16k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LAB’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 LAB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 LAB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of FILM LAB's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Organizations like FILM LAB
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 LAB: 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 LAB?
- FILM LAB (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,700 to it, the largest being TIGER BARON FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FILM LAB have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,700 in grants to FILM LAB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FILM LAB?
- TIGER BARON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FILM LAB 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 3 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