California · Nonprofit
National Film Preservation Foundation
National Film Preservation Foundation (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,626 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($250,120). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $966k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What National Film Preservation Foundation does
Mission
The NFPF is a nonprofit organization established in the District of Columbia resulting from an Act of Congress in order to preserve and make publicly accessible our nations film heritage. The NFPF works with archives to preserve American films and improve access for education and exhibition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preserving American films through grants. Saved 81 titles through grants to 31 institutions. Films slated for preservation include The Tombs (1973), Phil Parmets unflinching documentary; Highlanders Wedding (1961), a reenactment of a traditional Polish Highlanders celebration; instructional films by Dr. Rutherford B. H. Gradwohl, the founder of modern forensic science; sponsored film, Invitation to Ohio (1964); Two Women (1977), LA Rebellion filmmaker Carrol Parrott Bluess first film; Weak But Willing (1929), a comedy short featuring Jean Harlow; Making is Choosing: A Fragment of Life: A Broken Line: A Series of Observations (1989), by Chicano filmmaker Willie Varela; and titles by experimental filmmakers Kathleen Laughlin, Heather McAdams, and Michael Mideke.
$1,093,687 spentof which $905,370 as grants85% of program spendingPromoting Access. The NFPF websites online component of The Field Guide to Sponsored Films (2006) hosts 205 films free to stream from 12 organizations. The NFPF added 6 silent films to its site and upgraded 5 films to HD video. All were derived from HD scans provided by the Library of Congress. In total, 380 films are available for viewing on the NFPF website as part of the launch of the NFPFs new streaming initiative. The NFPF also assists the Library of Congress in implementing selected recommendations found in the National Recording and National Film Preservation Plans.
$134,435 spentof which $23,000 as grants10% of program spendingPromoting film preservation through publications. The foundation produces DVD sets in the Treasures from American Film Archives series and books that advance national film preservation efforts. With support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the NFPF continues production on Treasures 6: Next Wave Avant-Garde Film, a 5-hour DVD box set surveying 28 experimental filmmakersfrom Abigail Child to Phil Solomonwho rose to prominence after 1965.
$64,393 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,292,515.
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 $2.4M to $2.9M (+21%).
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 79% · 2019 78% · 2020 95% · 2021 78% · 2022 67% · 2023 74% · 2024 75% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of National Film Preservation Foundation’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. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Grover Crisp
Chair/Pres.
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $259k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 National Film Preservation Foundation’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
National Film Preservation Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
49% 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 National Film Preservation Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 67% · 2019 46% · 2020 47% · 2021 47% · 2022 93% · 2023 77% — 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
33% of National Film Preservation Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
69% of National Film Preservation Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
National Film Preservation Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like National Film Preservation Foundation
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Film Preservation Foundation: 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 National Film Preservation Foundation?
- National Film Preservation Foundation (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,626 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($250,120). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Film Preservation Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $965,626 in grants to National Film Preservation Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Film Preservation Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Film Preservation Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 15 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