Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Greater Philadelphia Film Office
Greater Philadelphia Film Office (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,855,994 to it, the largest being WYNCOTE FOUNDATION ($690,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Greater Philadelphia Film Office does
Mission
The Corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any corresponding provisions of subsequent superceding federal
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Greater Philadelphia Filmmakers Program: This program serves the regional independent media arts community by providing educational programming, networking opportunities, industry workshops, fiscal sponsorship services, and Screenwriting competitions.
$501,400 spentof which $267,613 as grants56% of program spendingFilm Production Attraction: This programs goal is to grow the local film and video industry in every way possible, recognizing its huge economic impact in job creation and its unparalleled public relations effects for the region.
$303,169 spent34% of program spendingProduction Coordination Program: The Greater Philadelphia Film Office provides producers assistance with parking, permits, labor, and locations, and generally acts as the liaison between the production and the local community, cutting through the red tape.
$92,693 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $897,262.
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 2020 to 2021, from $900k to $1.2M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 39% · 2024 54% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Greater Philadelphia Film Office’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
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.
Board chair
Alan L Zeiger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $356k → $145k.
8 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Greater Philadelphia Film Office’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
Greater Philadelphia Film Office 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
29% 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 Greater Philadelphia Film Office.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 88% · 2019 81% · 2020 40% · 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 76% — 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
22% of Greater Philadelphia Film Office's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
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
52% of Greater Philadelphia Film Office's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $630k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Greater Philadelphia Film Office holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Greater Philadelphia Film Office
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greater Philadelphia Film Office: 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 Greater Philadelphia Film Office?
- Greater Philadelphia Film Office (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,855,994 to it, the largest being WYNCOTE FOUNDATION ($690,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greater Philadelphia Film Office have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,855,994 in grants to Greater Philadelphia Film Office, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greater Philadelphia Film Office?
- WYNCOTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greater Philadelphia Film Office find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 44 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing