California · Nonprofit
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,057,940 to it, the largest being HOUSTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Palm Springs International Film Society does
Mission
To promote film festivals and related activities in the city of palm springs and surrounding areas, and to provide a wide variety of film experiences and educational programs to the people of the coachella valley and its visitors.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Provide educational and cultural presentations to members of the community and the exhibition of new artistic works by independent non-commercial new film makers.
$3,589,660 spent$2,716,612 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,589,660.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.5M to $7.4M (+33%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 9% · 2020 8% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 2023 14% · 2024 10% · 2025 7% · 2026 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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
Nachattar Singh Chandi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $105k → $406k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $150k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Eisenhower Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 32% · 2019 28% · 2020 86% · 2021 21% · 2022 64% · 2023 37% — 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
31% of PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 85 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 85 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
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 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY: 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 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY?
- PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,057,940 to it, the largest being HOUSTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,057,940 in grants to PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY?
- HOUSTON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing