Washington · Nonprofit
ONE REEL
ONE REEL (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,500 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($42,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $4k
What One Reel does
Mission
One Reel fuels civic pride through signature programs that foster growth and development in community and the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased partnering with northwest folklife festival.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
At the start of 2024, One Reel's board recognized that the organization could not continue to support its most significant publicdisplay.art, the print publication and website serving seattle's artists and creative community. Yet, they recognized its importance to the community and understood how important it was to find another organization to transfer the program as One Reel prepared to dissolve its non-profit status.publicdisplay.artin 2024, One Reel published the first two issues of publicdisplay.art. The march issue centered around the theme "the state of the arts" a local exploration of how the seattle's arts community was faring in a post-pandemic world. It included in-depth articles with king county's executive director, dow constantine, and the city of seattle's office of arts and culture and featured the results of the publications recent local artist survey and the arts organization survey. Many in the community cited this issue to be instrumental in securing additional funding for the arts through king county and the city of seattle. Our june 2024 issue's theme, "pride on public display", focused on celebrating lgbtqia+ artists.One Reel proved to be successful in…
$52,946 spent100% of program spendingBumbershoot poster sales - in 2024, One Reel continued its online sale of vintage official bumbershoot festival posters. The new promoters of the bumbershoot festival also purchased the social media rights from One Reel.
$1,935 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,946.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $153k to $55k (−64%).
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: 2017 23% · 2018 36% · 2019 52% · 2020 55% · 2021 50% · 2022 57% · 2023 16% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of ONE REEL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Martin Griswold
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ONE REEL’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
ONE REEL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
55% 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 ONE REEL.
“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
100% of ONE REEL's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ONE REEL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ONE REEL
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONE REEL: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ONE REEL?
- ONE REEL (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,500 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($42,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ONE REEL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $77,500 in grants to ONE REEL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE REEL?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE REEL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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