Indiana · Nonprofit
HEARTLAND FILM INC
HEARTLAND FILM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,519,016 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,465,250). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Heartland Film Inc does
Mission
To curate, promote and celebrate thoughtful and engaging films from diverse perspectives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Heartland international film festival heartland film brings the world to indianapolis each october during the 11-day heartland international film festival.
$733,266 spent$193,096 earned by the program59% of program spendingIndy shorts international film festival an all short film 6-day event held in july. This film festival has been given a designation by the academy of motion picture arts & sciences as a qualifying film festival for the academy awards.
$403,980 spent$144,779 earned by the program32% of program spendingHeartland film roadshows year round community screenings allow the organization to share heartland film films with audiences throughout the year. We partner with organizations like the jcc of indianapolis, butler university, the historic artcraft theatre, and others to bring past festival films to different groups and communities.
$83,706 spent$28,925 earned by the program7% of program spendingTruly moving picture award - throughout the year, heartland film honors select theatrically-released films with the truly moving picture award. Our award is a signal to audiences across the nation that a film has the power to do more than just entertain. It has the power to make a positive impact on its audience.
$4,435 spent0% of program spendingMerry movie nights - in the month of december heartland film hosts along with sponsor edward jones a mini-movie series where favorite holiday classic films are shown at the arts for lawrence's theater at the fort.
$27,227 spent$3,212 earned by the program2% of program spendingCinemania - a one night celebration to curate, promote, and celebrate thoughtful and engaging films from diverse perspectives.
$145,831 earned by the program
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,252,614.
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. 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 $6.4M to $7.6M (+19%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of HEARTLAND FILM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Michael Ault
President/CEO-nonvoting
Board chair
John Dewey
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $461k → $1.2M.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HEARTLAND FILM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
HEARTLAND FILM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 60% · 2019 40% · 2020 47% · 2021 33% · 2022 43% · 2023 77% — 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
54% of HEARTLAND FILM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
86% of HEARTLAND FILM INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $994k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HEARTLAND FILM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HEARTLAND FILM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$290k
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 HEARTLAND FILM 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 HEARTLAND FILM 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 HEARTLAND FILM INC?
- HEARTLAND FILM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,519,016 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,465,250). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTLAND FILM INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $6,519,016 in grants to HEARTLAND FILM INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTLAND FILM INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,465,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTLAND FILM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 40 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