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Good Picture Inc

Good Picture Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ($27,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$23k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$52k
Net assets
$0
0/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Good Picture Inc does

Mission

The mission is to produce and distribute films.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Produces documentary films for educational distribution. In 2024 the organization closed its operations.

    $23,111 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,111.

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 ($10) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 70 ($7) Expenses 17 ($737) Net assets 87 ($5k)2019 Revenue 50 ($5) Expenses 55 ($2k) Net assets 43 ($2k)2020 Revenue 260 ($26) Expenses 55 ($2k) Net assets 0 ($-2)2021 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 17 ($751) Net assets -13 ($-753)2022 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 8 ($347) Net assets -20 ($-1100)2023 Revenue 405010 ($41k) Expenses 693 ($31k) Net assets 151 ($8k)2024 Revenue 232790 ($23k) Expenses 833 ($37k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (232790)Expenses (833)Net assets (0)

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 $44k to $0 (−100%).

$7k
$7k
$2k
$361
$88
$2k
$44k
$0
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
−$730
’18
−$2k
’19
−$2k
’20
−$751
’21
−$347
’22
$10k
’23
−$14k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
$27k
Sundance Instituteunclassified
$25k
funders
3

From the IRS filings of Good Picture Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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

Good Picture Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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 Good Picture Inc.

52%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

Good Picture Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

NY
UT

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.

04Its place in the field

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In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Good Picture 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 Good Picture Inc?
Good Picture Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ($27,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Good Picture Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $52,000 in grants to Good Picture Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Good Picture Inc?
FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Good Picture Inc 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.

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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 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