North Carolina · Nonprofit
PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION
PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being HIGH POINT CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA VISIT HIGH POINT ($17,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $161k
What Piedmont Triad Film Commission does
Mission
To promote economic growth in the piedmont triad area by marketing the regions locations, crew infrastructure/support services to recruit film, commercialm tv and still photography production company jobs and businesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the reporting period, the Piedmont Triad Film Commission utilized its funding to recruit and support film, television, commercial, and still photography production throughout the piedmont triad region of north carolina. The commission provided location scouting, permitting guidance, and logistical coordination for multiple projects, including production support for the feature film the bard, a home depot commercial production, the television series military makeover, and independent film projects such as granny hands. The organization also assisted location scouts exploring the region for additional productions, supported still photography campaigns, and helped student filmmakers and emerging industry professionals navigate local resources. Through ongoing collaboration with economic development partners, tourism agencies, and the north carolina film office, the commission markets the regions diverse locations and production resources to producers nationwide. These efforts generate economic activity for local businessesincluding hotels, restaurants, construction trades, transportation providers, and equipment vendorswhile creating employment opportunities for regional crew…
$93,105 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $93,105.
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 2021 to 2022, from $14k to $98k (+594%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 89% · 2024 88% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Scott Needham
Chair (throu
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION’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
PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
100% 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 PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
100% of PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION: 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 PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION?
- PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being HIGH POINT CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA VISIT HIGH POINT ($17,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,000 in grants to PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION?
- HIGH POINT CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA VISIT HIGH POINT is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIEDMONT TRIAD FILM COMMISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 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