California · Nonprofit
FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB
FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500,000 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB's revenue grew 219226% between 2021 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,461 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
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.
- Women Giving as One Inclocal
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio match
- International Documentary Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
100% of FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB’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.
Where its funders are
FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Women Giving as One InclocalCA · funds 45 organizations near you
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Documentary Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Khr McNeely Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Islanders in Communicationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Syzygy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicken & Egg Films Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denovo Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incportfolio 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 FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB: 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.
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 FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB?
- FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500,000 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500,000 in grants to FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB.
- Who is the largest funder of FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB?
- JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 1funders 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