New York · Nonprofit
METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY
METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,314,844 to it, the largest being THE STEVEN M AND ANITA C HELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($631,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $191k
What Metropole Film Board Inc Co Oren Jacoby does
Mission
To conduct a national program for planning, fund-raising and production of films on the arts, humanities, psychology and human relations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Metropole continued its fundraising efforts for our current documentary project about climate change and the fossil fuel industry, This Is Not a Drill, that opened at the Telluride Film Festival. Metropole served as the fiscal sponsor for The Calling: A Medical Odyssey, a documentary profiling BIPOC medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine that premiered on PBS on March 17, 2025. The Power of Z, a documentary examining the impact Gen Z voters could have on upcoming elections Just Kids, a feature documentary that follows three families with transgender youth in states that have banned their gender affirming care. The film contextualizes in history the years-long political strategy behind these laws an untitled documentary, currently in development, about the impact of AI technology
$434,554 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $434,554.
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.
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 $38k to $312k (+711%).
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.
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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $113k → $329k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY’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
METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
29% 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 METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 63% · 2019 38% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 38% — 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
17% of METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
79% of METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $662k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY: 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 METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY?
- METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY (New York) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,314,844 to it, the largest being THE STEVEN M AND ANITA C HELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($631,925). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,314,844 in grants to METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY?
- THE STEVEN M AND ANITA C HELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $631,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLE FILM BOARD INC CO OREN JACOBY 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.
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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 19 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