Illinois · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18
INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18 (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,000 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wieboldt Foundationshared funders
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio match
- Academy Foundationportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18’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
INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2020 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 INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wieboldt Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Academy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denovo Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cinereach Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicken & Egg Films Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Documentary Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Media Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Participant Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18 receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18?
- INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18 (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,000 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18 have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $144,000 in grants to INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18?
- FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENT FILM ALLIANCE F/K/A STAGE 18 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing