California · Nonprofit
GRACE BASED FILMS INC
GRACE BASED FILMS INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,000 to it, the largest being JOHN C MARKEY CHARITABLE FUND ($160,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $334k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $670k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Grace Based Films Inc does
Mission
Grace-based films is a 501(c)3 revolutionary film production company based in hollywood. We tell universal stories that reveal the complexity of living a life in hope and faith. We have re-envisioned the typical film business model. By funding our films through donors rather than investors, we get to put people to work and our profits go toward future stories and philanthropy, rather than investors and filmmakers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
A majority of program revenue and expenses are related to the program service of "a case for love" - a documentary featuring bishop michael curry's message of universal, unsentimental, sacrificial love, interwoven with conversations involving familiar figures and everyday people to explore how this message is lived out in the greater world. It will connect that powerful message with the global audience that hollywood reaches.
$425,841 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $425,841.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $402k to $140k (−65%).
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.
69% of GRACE BASED FILMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Brian Ide
CEO & president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $113k → $17k.
3 of 11 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 GRACE BASED FILMS 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
GRACE BASED FILMS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
72% 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 GRACE BASED FILMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 46% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
GRACE BASED FILMS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k 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.
Against its field
GRACE BASED FILMS INC receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $670k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GRACE BASED FILMS 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.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gbf Mc Doc LLC · disregarded
- Gbf Mc Doc LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRACE BASED FILMS 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 GRACE BASED FILMS INC?
- GRACE BASED FILMS INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $670,000 to it, the largest being JOHN C MARKEY CHARITABLE FUND ($160,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRACE BASED FILMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $670,000 in grants to GRACE BASED FILMS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACE BASED FILMS INC?
- JOHN C MARKEY CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACE BASED FILMS 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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