Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC
FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,957 to it, the largest being Erie Community Foundation ($31,356). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC's revenue fell 52% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Erie Countyshared funderslocal
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Incportfolio match
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
71% of FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC’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. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $6k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA 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
FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
100% 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 SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 100% — 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
73% of FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Erie Countyshared funderslocalPA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Better Angels Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Academy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurel Highlandsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Happy Valley Adventure Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicken & Egg Films Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McBrier Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denovo Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA 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 FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC?
- FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,957 to it, the largest being Erie Community Foundation ($31,356). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,957 in grants to FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC?
- Erie Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $31,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FILM SOCIETY OF NORTHWESTERN PA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing