Georgia · Nonprofit
MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC
MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,493 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,962). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Macon Film Festival Inc does
Mission
Surrounded by a rich musical and southern culture, the macon film festival celebrates independent film while promoting filmmaking for entertainment, inspiration, education, and economic development. Through the work of the macon film festival, it is our vision for central georgia to become a destination for film.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In august of 2025 the macon film festival celebrated 20 years of showcasing independent films and filmmakers in macon, georgia. The festival partnered with the fire starters film festival to kick off the festival for the international premiere screening of the festival award winning documentaries tiger directed by loren waters and remaining native directed by paige bethmann with special guests dana tiger (tiger) and delmar steven (remaining native) in attendance. Also based in macon, the fire starters film festival focuses on showcasing film and visual art made by indigenous filmmakers, with a particular emphasis on the muscogee (creek) nation experience. The festival's official selection screenings began friday morning at the museum of arts and sciences with a daylong educational workshop for central georgia high school juniors and seniors. Students were introduced to the festival's student shorts block (college/university) and as well as a collection of selections from the 2025 fulldome category of immersive films. They were given the opportunity to meet with visiting filmmakers and interact with the museum's interactive wonderspace immersive exhibit. Fulldome and documentary…
$86,597 spentof which $6,200 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,597.
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 2023 to 2024, from $115k to $72k (−37%).
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.
81% of MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $9k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MACON FILM 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
MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MACON FILM 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 MACON FILM 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 MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,493 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,962). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $84,493 in grants to MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MACON FILM FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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