Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL
MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,776,640 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($900,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $59k
What March on Washington Film Festival does
Mission
The March on Washington Film Festival (mowff) strives to celebrate and increase awareness of the events and heroes of the civil rights era and inspire renewed passion for activism. The festival leverages the broad appeal of film, music, and the arts to tell these vital stories, and attracts an audience that is diverse in age, class and ethnicity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The March on Washington Film Festival (mowff) strives to celebrate and increase awareness of the events and heroes of the civil rights era and inspire renewed passion for activism. The festival leverages the broad appeal of film, music, and the arts to tell these vital stories, and attracts an audience that is diverse in age, class and ethnicity.
$1,282,900 spentof which $6,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,282,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $445k to $1.1M (+141%).
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: 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Joanne Irby
Interim executive director
Board chair
Stephanie Gold
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $50k → $332k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
39% 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 MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 40% · 2019 56% · 2020 51% · 2021 65% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% — 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
38% of MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $731k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL?
- MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,776,640 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($900,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,776,640 in grants to MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 35 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