Minnesota · Nonprofit
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,500 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL AND GENEVIEVE RATNER FOUNDATION ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $-800018
What Independent Television Festival Inc does
Mission
Catalyst is a champion of independent artists and a curator of narrative stories whose mission is to advance artistic careers, and audio, visual and literary works.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The 2024 catalyst content festival took place october 2 - october 6, 2024. The 2024 festival partnered with the duluth superior film festival, minnesota webfest, and edu fest to bring an expanded range of content and networking opportunities to their combined audiences. Attendance of content creators, industry executives, and the general public audience totaled at over 600. Over 35 shows were screened, 25 scripts presented, 25 pitches given, and 2 podcasts played. It also included 12 educational panels, seminars, and workshops.
$78,366 spent$20,824 earned by the program56% of program spendingEducational courses on a variety of industry topics including acting, writing, directing, producing, cinematography, and crew jobs were held throughout the year, in addition to in-person classes, panels and networking events. The institute had over 100 individuals partaking in various virtual and in-person offerings throughout the year. We expanded our offerings to new orleans, louisiana in partnership with eross studios and dillard university. We also began our first in-person courses internationally with acting and writing classes held in tirana, albania.
$62,126 spent$13,865 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $140,492.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2k to $111k (+7027%).
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: 2019 37% · 2020 30% · 2021 21% · 2022 0% · 2023 17% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Philip Gilpin Jr
CEO/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $25k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 TELEVISION 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
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 95% · 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
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC's revenue fell 70% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- Department of State$15k
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 TELEVISION 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC?
- INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,500 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL AND GENEVIEVE RATNER FOUNDATION ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $202,500 in grants to INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC?
- THE DANIEL AND GENEVIEVE RATNER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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