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FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC

FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,060 to it, the largest being ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ($126,474). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$222k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$314k
Net assets
$274k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Fort Wayne Cinema Center Inc does

Mission

Cinema center, fort wayne's center for film, provides unique opportunities to explore our world through the art of film.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cinema center is the premier cultural center for the presentation of independent, foreign and documentary films in northeast indiana. Through special programming, outreach and education programs, cinema center provides a hub for filmmakers, artists, and film lovers to share and discuss the craft. We strive to engage our community with programming that stimulates, expands thought, inspires the spirit, promotes discussion and fosters empathy through artistic and cultural experiences.

    $121,086 spent$97,782 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $121,086.

02The 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 ($332k) Expenses 100 ($361k) Net assets 100 ($338k)2018 Revenue 87 ($289k) Expenses 85 ($307k) Net assets 96 ($326k)2019 Revenue 58 ($193k) Expenses 68 ($244k) Net assets 81 ($275k)2020 Revenue 71 ($235k) Expenses 56 ($201k) Net assets 89 ($300k)2021 Revenue 58 ($192k) Expenses 38 ($137k) Net assets 105 ($355k)2022 Revenue 79 ($263k) Expenses 69 ($249k) Net assets 109 ($369k)2023 Revenue 72 ($239k) Expenses 65 ($234k) Net assets 111 ($375k)2024 Revenue 59 ($198k) Expenses 77 ($277k) Net assets 87 ($295k)2025 Revenue 67 ($222k) Expenses 67 ($243k) Net assets 81 ($274k)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (67)Net assets (81)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $427k to $351k (−18%).

$370k
$371k
$328k
$374k
$409k
$422k
$427k
$351k
$287k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 47% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$29k
’17
−$18k
’18
−$51k
’19
$34k
’20
$55k
’21
$15k
’22
$5k
’23
−$79k
’24
−$21k
’25
12
months of
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.

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Listed1419161816111299
Joined·+9+1+9+5+1+1+2+0
No longer listed·44776050
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $21k.

2 of 8 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 FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER 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

FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC.

40%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 70% · 2020 45% · 2021 82% · 2022 46% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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 FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

97% of FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

MI
IN

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

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’22
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 46%Fundraising 4%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC?
FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,060 to it, the largest being ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC ($126,474). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $314,060 in grants to FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC?
ARTS UNITED OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC is the largest funder on record, with $126,474 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT WAYNE CINEMA CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 8 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