California · Nonprofit
Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center
Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center (California) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,751,664 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($2,571,275). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 116
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center does
Mission
Advancing environmental solutions through the power of stories that move.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Film & filmmaker support: to cultivate and extend opportunities, resources, and support systems for filmmakers to expand their educational/environmental impact, while fortifying access to both mainstream and grassroots platforms for distribution. In 2025, we supported 40 films with approximately $6.75 million in funds distributed; offered 16 films free to the general public through our films that move screening series. We hosted our 2-day grants summit at mountainfilm festival, providing 13 film teams with mentorship, workshops, and professional development opportunities.
$6,738,129 spentof which $6,324,036 as grants$14,186 earned by the program85% of program spendingCollective action: to build a more connected and effective community of environmental filmmakers by strengthening our collective efforts and field infrastructure. We develop collaborative impact and educational programs, engage in field service, and create tools and resources that bridge gaps between filmmakers, the film industry, and environmental stakeholders. In 2025, we completed 3 films under the nature connection theme in partnership with rei cooperative action fund. We also held a collective impact event with four film teams under our solutions short film campaign. We also participated in 21 peer events, and completed the first pilot phase of our bridging values film and screening program.
$899,773 spent11% of program spendingEcosystem growth: to expand and deepen the support, resources, and opportunities for solutions-forward environmental films to be seen and valued as tools for education, engagement and empowerment and to be utilized, supported, and invested in at scale. In 2025, we built our first film slate for distributors, produced four video case studies, and released a 2025 redford center impact report and a written case study about our film watershed in collaboration with american university.
$281,321 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,919,223.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.4M to $8.1M (+239%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $470k → $7.4M.
27 of 116 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 116 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
Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
57% 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 Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 30% · 2019 23% · 2020 57% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 27% — 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
40% of Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
51% of Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside California, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center has grown faster than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center
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
85% 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 Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center: 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 Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center?
- Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center (California) receives grants from 116 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,751,664 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($2,571,275). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center have?
- IRS filings report 116 organizations giving $26,751,664 in grants to Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,571,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Redford Center Inc dba The Redford Center 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 116 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