Connecticut · Nonprofit
GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC
GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,035 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($293,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $958k
- Net assets
- $0
What Greenwich International Film Festival Inc does
Mission
The mission of greenwich international film festival is to bridge the worlds of film and philanthropy with year-round programming and special events. Additionally, giff harnesses the power of film to serve the greater good by highlighting important issues that relate to basic human rights, education, the environment and health care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization has formally ceased all operations and will no longer be conducting business, effective july 16, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Giff film program giff showcases a variety of films of merit, and was proud to feature a jewish film series with films like between the temples, a social impact film series with films like didi, conclave, and we live in time, and films with female directors like girls will be girls, including q&as with film talent this year. Thousands of people enjoy our film program each year. B. Giff held its annual changemaker gala in november of 2024 honoring golden globe and emmy-winning comedian jerry seinfeld and jessica seinfeld, executive producer of daughters, founder of the good+foundation, and bestselling author. The gala, which took place on wednesday, november 13th at 7 p.m. At l'escale in greenwich, ct, benefited the children's museum of manhattan family connections program, which reunites parents incarcerated on rikers island and their children for an afternoon of play and learning at the museum. This first-of-its-kind national model is designed to strengthen parent-child bonds, reduce the trauma of separation on the child, motivate parents to improve behavior in custody, and reduce recidivism. Jerry & jessica seinfeld were honored for their philanthropic endeavors and for using…
$525,475 spentof which $303,358 as grants$45,174 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $525,475.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $338k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Ginger Stickel
Executive director/secretary
Board chair
Wendy Stapleton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $68k → $127k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 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
GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
52% 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 GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 37% · 2019 21% · 2020 30% · 2021 67% · 2022 24% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
21% of GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $463k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,035 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($293,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $958,035 in grants to GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $293,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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