Michigan · Nonprofit
FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL
FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being MARQUETTE COUNTRY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Fresh Coast Film Festival does
Mission
Fresh Coast Film Festival is a film festival organization celebrating the outdoor lifestyle, water-rich environment and resilient spirit of the great lakes and upper midwest. The festival will gather the best in environmental and cultural filmmaking from around the world while creating a venue for, and building a culture of, great lakes storytelling. The festival will be held annually in october during the height of fall color season in marquette, michigan and hold a variety of programming celebrating the environment and great lakes culture, offering both free and ticketed events and programs over the event's weekend, as well as throughout the year. For participants, volunteers, filmmakers, and students fresh coast will mean an opportunity to interact with environmental thinkers, outdoors athletes and media professionals working in the outdoors industry. A key component of the fresh coast experience will be guided outdoor activities to introduce visitors to the outdoor playground of th
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The 2025 Fresh Coast Film Festival occurred october 16-19, 2025. During the event, we showed 91 films that celebrate the natural resources, beauty, diversity, and people of the great lakes region and beyond. We held 18 outdoors tours, had 136 artists and subjects in attendance at 13 venues with over 1500 participants in attendance throughout the festival weekend. We held our fresh coast free event on thursday night and had over 400 people in attendance. Our community impact includes an estimated 1.25 million going back to local businesses in and around marquette county.
$85,187 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,187.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $64k to $52k (−18%).
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.
17% of FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL’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
FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
62% 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 FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
100% of FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL
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 Michigan
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 FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL: 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 FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL?
- FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being MARQUETTE COUNTRY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,500 in grants to FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL?
- MARQUETTE COUNTRY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH COAST FILM FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2019–2025), 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