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MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE

MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,910,114 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($15,279,500). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$8.1M
Revenue FY2024
104
Funders on record
$36M
Grants received
$7.2M
Net assets
67/104 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%

Against its field

MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 171 ($5.6M) Expenses 212 ($7.4M) Net assets 45 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 154 ($5.1M) Expenses 140 ($4.9M) Net assets 52 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 242 ($8.0M) Expenses 112 ($3.9M) Net assets 174 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 227 ($7.5M) Expenses 237 ($8.3M) Net assets 149 ($4.9M)2022 Revenue 421 ($14M) Expenses 401 ($14M) Net assets 144 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 346 ($11M) Expenses 302 ($11M) Net assets 168 ($5.6M)2024 Revenue 245 ($8.1M) Expenses 153 ($5.3M) Net assets 217 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (245)Expenses (153)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$207k
17
$1.8M
18
$183k
19
$4.1M
20
$796k
21
$177k
22
$811k
23
$2.7M
24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $271k → $9.5M.

19 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)61% 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 MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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

MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE.

43%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 52% · 2019 39% · 2020 18% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 2023 58%growing more concentrated.

“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

53% of MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE'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 $14M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 30 states.

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 104 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE

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 York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 32 states

NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Mpi Original Yosemite LLC · disregarded
  • Mpi Original Huron LLC · disregarded
  • Mpi Original Bryce LLC · disregarded
  • Mpi Original Films LLC · disregarded
  • Mpi Original Great Smoky LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: 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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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 MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE?
MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,910,114 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($15,279,500). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $35,910,114 in grants to MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE?
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $15,279,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 104funders 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