New York · Nonprofit
LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD
LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,467 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($77,632). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $297k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $339k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Light Industry Cinema Projects Ltd does
Mission
Light Industry Cinema Projects promotes cinema as an art form through the presentation of events in New York City at our dedicated space and other spaces, publishing, and assistance to select film productions. The goal of the organization is (Continued on Schedule O, Statement 2)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During the fiscal period from the middle of 2024 to the middle of 2025, Light Industry Cinema Projects presented 45 public programs in New York City, with an in-person attendance of approximately 5000 total individuals
$252,243 spentof which $105,760 as grants$117,811 earned by the program93% of program spendingDesign and editorial work on the book OLIA LIALINA and publication and distribution of the book COUSIN READER.
$18,845 spent$15,333 earned by the program7% of program spendingFiscal sponsorship of MEZZANINE/LA FESTIVAL OF MOVIES, a cinematheque and film festival in Los Angeles, CA, and an untitled project by independent filmmaker James Paul Dallas.
$10,311 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $271,088.
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 $107k to $11k (−90%).
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: 2018 12% · 2021 14% · 2022 28% · 2023 43% · 2024 26% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5 → $27k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD’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
LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 44% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 55% 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
71% of LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $97k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243k 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
LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD: 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 LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD?
- LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,467 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($77,632). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $339,467 in grants to LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $77,632 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHT INDUSTRY CINEMA PROJECTS LTD 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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