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FILM STREAMS INC

FILM STREAMS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,239,240 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($3,300,070). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.5M
Revenue FY2024
60
Funders on record
$11M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
40/60 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 48 ($2.9M) Expenses 130 ($2.6M) Net assets 102 ($12M)2019 Revenue 47 ($2.8M) Expenses 132 ($2.7M) Net assets 103 ($12M)2020 Revenue 49 ($3.0M) Expenses 111 ($2.2M) Net assets 109 ($13M)2021 Revenue 40 ($2.4M) Expenses 108 ($2.2M) Net assets 111 ($13M)2022 Revenue 43 ($2.5M) Expenses 133 ($2.7M) Net assets 110 ($13M)2023 Revenue 42 ($2.5M) Expenses 152 ($3.1M) Net assets 106 ($12M)2024 Revenue 42 ($2.5M) Expenses 162 ($3.3M) Net assets 99 ($12M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (42)Expenses (162)Net assets (99)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 32% · 2021 25% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.0M
’17
$235k
’18
$170k
’19
$707k
’20
$200k
’21
−$135k
’22
−$529k
’23
−$756k
’24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 27 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $2.7M → $934k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Dixon Family Foundationunclassified
$45k
funders
27
27
23
27
22
24
20
16
18

6 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 STREAMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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 STREAMS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

29%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 50% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% — 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

40% of FILM STREAMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of FILM STREAMS INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

IL
MI
MA
OH
CA
NE
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

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 60 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding FILM STREAMS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.

Federal$200k
grants $200kcontracts $0
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25
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$200k

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 FILM STREAMS 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 Nebraska

The Omaha Film Festival % Marc Longbrake81%The Omaha Institute for Nonprofit Journalism81%Downtown Riverfront Trust81%Omaha Community Playhouse Foundation80%Blue Barn Theatre80%Playing With Fire79%Omaha Development Foundation79%Bff Omaha Inc79%

Nationally

Artstream Inc84%Frozen River Film Festival83%The Foundation of Arts of Nea Inc82%National Arts Strategies Inc82%Film at Lincoln Center Inc82%The Film Society of Minneapolis St Paul82%Cleveland Film Society82%Middleburg Film Festival82%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 15%Fundraising 10%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Ruth Sokolof Theater LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FILM STREAMS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FILM STREAMS INC?
FILM STREAMS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,239,240 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($3,300,070). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FILM STREAMS INC have?
IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $11,239,240 in grants to FILM STREAMS INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FILM STREAMS INC?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,300,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FILM STREAMS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 60funders 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