Colorado · Nonprofit
Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute
Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,970 to it, the largest being INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ($84,359). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $466k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $492k
- Net assets
- $718k
What Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute does
Mission
Rocky Mountain Women's Film builds community around film by elevating the stories of women and others who are often unheard or unseen. We believe in the unique power, connection, and strength in women-led community. See Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our Annual Womens Film Festival showcases independent films made by women who cover topics that include, but not limited to race, class, gender, environmental degradation, social movements, history, military criminal justice, poetry, love and family. Important to note is the Youth Outreach Program that we offer during the film festival. High school students from across El Paso County can preview films that will be featured at the festival. They are encouraged to create art in any medium they choose, to express feelings that arise from watching the films and art that are showcased throughout the festival weekend. See Schedule O
$125,828 spent$75,909 earned by the program90% of program spendingFilmmakers Retreat: Every year Rocky Mountain Womens Film invites Filmmakers from around the country, all who are previous festival attendees, to spend 3 days at a beautiful ranch home in the mountains to discuss issues and challenges facing women directors, sharing resources and expertise, and creating a supportive community among female documentarians. More than anything, this weekend is about connection and rejuvenation.
$5,506 spent$3,000 earned by the program4% of program spendingPopUp Cinema has continued to grow since 2022 when we started the program. The program was created in response to our communitys desire to keep local independent movie theatre alive (the last independent movie theater in Colorado Springs closed in Feb 2022).
$5,900 spent$13,286 earned by the program4% of program spendingFilm Club and Film in the Community are free monthly events, allowing all socioeconomic backgrounds access to engaging, powerful material. Schedule O
$2,179 spent$8,227 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $139,413.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $45k to $865k (+1803%).
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: 2020 13% · 2022 17% · 2023 2% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Nicole Nicoletta
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $13k → $71k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute’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
Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 66% · 2019 63% · 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 35% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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
38% of Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
72% of Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute: 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 Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute?
- Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,970 to it, the largest being INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak ($84,359). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $491,970 in grants to Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute?
- INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak is the largest funder on record, with $84,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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