Texas · Nonprofit
HYPERREAL FILM CLUB
HYPERREAL FILM CLUB (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,803 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $158k
What Hyperreal Film Club does
Mission
Hyperreal Film Club provides free and sliding scale film screenings for the community, opportunities for local filmmakers to screen their work to an appreciative audience, and a platform for film writers and podcasters to explore the wide world of cinema.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since July 2016, we've produced hundreds of screenings and welcomed nearly 50,000 guests at dozens of local venues. In September 2024, we opened our own venue in East Austin where we screen movies and local short films 5+ nights each week. Integral to our vision is radical affordability and radical canon-busting - bringing queer, racially diverse, and class-diverse films all into the same spaces and conversations.
$193,325 spent$106,116 earned by the program100% of program spendingWe've presented work from more than 500 local filmmakers at our events.
$0 spent0% of program spendingWe produce the Hyperreal Film Journal - a film criticism platform with more than fifty regular writers and a team of dedicated editors, all of whom write and work on a volunteer basis. The journal publishes new writing five days a week and is a go-to source for reliable, studied, entertaining film writing in Austin and around the country. Our writers are regularly accepted as accredited press at SXSW, TIFF, Sundance, and other top film festivals.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $193,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $111k (+122%).
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: 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of HYPERREAL FILM CLUB’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 HYPERREAL FILM CLUB’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
HYPERREAL FILM CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 HYPERREAL FILM CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of HYPERREAL FILM CLUB's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
HYPERREAL FILM CLUB has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HYPERREAL FILM CLUB
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HYPERREAL FILM CLUB: 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 HYPERREAL FILM CLUB?
- HYPERREAL FILM CLUB (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,803 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HYPERREAL FILM CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $61,803 in grants to HYPERREAL FILM CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HYPERREAL FILM CLUB?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 HYPERREAL FILM CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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