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MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD

MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$412k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Minnesota Motion Picture and Television Development Board does

Mission

Promotion of film, television and other media production in minnesota.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. General program providing supporting services, referrals, location research, etc. To promote film, television, and other media production in minnesota.

    $367,802 spentof which $314,607 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $367,802.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.7M) Net assets -283 ($-20386)2018 Revenue 96 ($5.5M) Expenses 97 ($5.6M) Net assets -346 ($-24950)2019 Revenue 38 ($2.2M) Expenses 39 ($2.2M) Net assets -485 ($-34995)2020 Revenue 13 ($744k) Expenses 13 ($760k) Net assets -705 ($-50878)2021 Revenue 23 ($1.3M) Expenses 22 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($7k)2022 Revenue 13 ($764k) Expenses 11 ($628k) Net assets 1990 ($144k)2023 Revenue 19 ($1.1M) Expenses 18 ($1.0M) Net assets 2411 ($174k)2024 Revenue 15 ($866k) Expenses 16 ($919k) Net assets 1680 ($121k)2025 Revenue 7 ($412k) Expenses 9 ($533k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (7)Expenses (9)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $807k to $415k (−49%).

$807k
$415k
$155k
$179k
$157k
$254k
$215k
$122k
$0
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 93% · 2020 88% · 2021 98% · 2022 92% · 2023 95% · 2024 99% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’17
−$5k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$16k
’20
$58k
’21
$136k
’22
$30k
’23
−$53k
’24
−$121k
’25
0.6
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.

Chief executive

Melodie Bahan

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201918191515171717
Joined·+5+6+4+1+2+4+0+0
No longer listed·67352200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD’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 MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD

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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD?
MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD.
Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD?
THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MINNESOTA MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT BOARD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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