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INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC

INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,463,975 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($1,030,675). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$565k
Revenue FY2024
12
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$392k
Net assets
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($393k) Expenses 100 ($383k) Net assets 100 ($306k)2018 Revenue 102 ($402k) Expenses 104 ($398k) Net assets 94 ($288k)2019 Revenue 125 ($490k) Expenses 112 ($429k) Net assets 128 ($393k)2020 Revenue 99 ($390k) Expenses 77 ($294k) Net assets 170 ($519k)2021 Revenue 189 ($744k) Expenses 119 ($455k) Net assets 279 ($855k)2022 Revenue 180 ($707k) Expenses 171 ($653k) Net assets 275 ($842k)2023 Revenue 81 ($316k) Expenses 201 ($770k) Net assets 137 ($419k)2024 Revenue 144 ($565k) Expenses 159 ($607k) Net assets 128 ($392k)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (159)Net assets (128)

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.

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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 16% · 2019 17% · 2020 11% · 2021 11% · 2022 32% · 2023 13% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
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$3k
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$61k
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$96k
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$288k
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$54k
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$454k
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$43k
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0.4
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $82k → $130k.

5 of 12 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 INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS 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

INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70%
largest funder
82%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 32% · 2019 55% · 2020 78% · 2021 87% · 2022 94% · 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

43% of INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $256k on record — $255k federal, $850 state.

Federal$255k
grants $255kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$145k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$110k
State$850
Top programs
  • DEDICATED$850

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 INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC

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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 18%Fundraising 11%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS 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 INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC?
INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,463,975 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($1,030,675). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,463,975 in grants to INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC?
The Ford Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,030,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL FILM SEMINARS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 12funders 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