Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER
LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being RITTENHOUSE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Landenberger Family Foundationshared funders
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio match
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Landenberger Family Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- Michigan Theater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Academy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicken & Egg Films Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catapult Film Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Denovo Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cinereach Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Participant Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Media Projectportfolio 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.
Organizations like LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER: 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 LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER?
- LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being RITTENHOUSE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER?
- RITTENHOUSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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