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LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC

LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,790 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC ($143,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$184k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$254k
Net assets
$33k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Lone Star Film Society Inc does

Mission

The lone star film society exists to cultivate an appreciation and understanding of the moving image as an art form and to showcase the city of fort worth to the world. The society accomplishes this mission through year-round presentation, education, and community collaboration. This includes an annual international film festival that is the leading event of its kind in north tx.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The lone star international film festival is a forum that showcases the best in american and international independent cinema. The festival is the kaystone program through which the lone star film society provides artistic and educational enrichment of the citizens of tarrant county. Over 5,000 individuals attended the festival in 2021 and had the unique opportunity to interact with film-makers. Highlighted events within the festival include an awards brunch where the lone star film society presents the lsiff life achievement aware, and a program called fort worth focus where kids have the opportunity to experience the red carpet and interact with filmmakers.

    $79,910 spent$50,409 earned by the program
    91% of program spending
  2. All in film is a program held in partnership with the boys & girls club of fort worth. It is a year-round series & educational program of repertory film programming featuring some of the most beloved and important films and filmmakers in cinematic history. It also partners to teach children the film making process and showcases a film that students produce them selfs.

    $7,899 spent$12,303 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $87,809.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($183k) Expenses 100 ($171k) Net assets -322 ($-105978)2022 Revenue 132 ($242k) Expenses 113 ($194k) Net assets -175 ($-57742)2023 Revenue 119 ($218k) Expenses 138 ($237k) Net assets -231 ($-76227)2024 Revenue 151 ($276k) Expenses 117 ($201k) Net assets -3 ($-971)2025 Revenue 101 ($184k) Expenses 128 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($33k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (101)Expenses (128)Net assets (100)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $66k to $133k (+101%).

$44k
$93k
$66k
$133k
$159k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

88% of LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’21
$48k
’22
−$19k
’23
$75k
’24
−$36k
’25
8.7
months of
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.

Board chair

Red Sanders

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1313131212
Joined·+1+0+3+1
No longer listed·1041
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $37k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY 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

LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

74% 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 LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC.

56%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 77% · 2019 67% · 2020 60% · 2021 51% · 2022 44% · 2023 59% — 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

20% of LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NC
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

50%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC?
LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,790 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC ($143,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $253,790 in grants to LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC?
ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $143,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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