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NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,090 to it, the largest being THE DEVTO SUPPORT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$160k
Net assets
$-533884
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Newport Beach Independent International Film Festival does

Mission

The festival focuses on showcasing a diverse collection of both studio and independent films. The festival supports the creation and advancement of innovative and artistic cinematic works from both emerging and seasoned filmmakers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The sponsorship of an annual film festival and related events, held in orange county, california. The primary purpose of this program is to bring in from different cultures the best in classic and contemporary film making participated by over 20 countries.

    $1,586,459 spent$467,694 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,586,459.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($724k) Expenses 100 ($737k)2018 Revenue 125 ($905k) Expenses 120 ($884k)2019 Revenue 149 ($1.1M) Expenses 150 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 70 ($510k) Expenses 63 ($464k)2021 Revenue 47 ($338k) Expenses 51 ($377k)2022 Revenue 155 ($1.1M) Expenses 157 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 139 ($1.0M) Expenses 177 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 206 ($1.5M) Expenses 203 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 257 ($1.9M) Expenses 253 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (257)Expenses (253)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8k to $214k (+2727%).

$2k
$4k
$8k
$214k
$110k
$87k
$6k
$23k
$9k
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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
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2022
2023
2024
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 17% · 2019 15% · 2020 36% · 2021 69% · 2022 71% · 2023 22% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
$21k
’18
−$20k
’19
$46k
’20
−$39k
’21
−$36k
’22
−$299k
’23
−$387
’24
$3k
’25
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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

Schwenk Gregg

Executive director/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $23 → $28.

Funder
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funders
1
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1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’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

NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69% 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 NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

69% of NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from California funders.

ID
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90 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

Against its field

NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL?
NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,090 to it, the largest being THE DEVTO SUPPORT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $160,090 in grants to NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL?
THE DEVTO SUPPORT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 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.

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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 4 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