New Jersey · Nonprofit
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,306,933 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($857,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC has grown faster than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ej Grassmann Trustshared funders
- Academy Foundationportfolio match
- The Whitehill Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporationportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 13% · 2022 22% · 2023 10% · 2024 5% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $684k → $788k.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
66% 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 MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 18% · 2019 32% · 2020 26% · 2021 32% · 2022 22% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
63% of MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC'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. Of the $1.6M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 55 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ej Grassmann Trustshared fundersNJ · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
- Academy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Whitehill Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cinereach Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicken & Egg Films Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perspective Media Initiatives Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hidden Pond Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Victoria Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Incshared fundersNJ · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Fm Kirby Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- The Provident Bank Foundationshared fundersNJ · backs 95 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record — $65k federal, $2.2M state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
- GRANT IN AID$1.9M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$211k
- FEDERAL$56k
- TRUST FUND$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Montclair Film at the Claridge LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTCLAIR 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,306,933 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($857,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $4,306,933 in grants to MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC?
- COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $857,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 55funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing