Arizona · Nonprofit
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,084,072 to it, the largest being THE KLING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,043,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop does
Mission
Bringing people together to broaden the understanding and celebrate the power of independent film through cinema and the Sedona experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Film Festivals & CinemaOffering the public first-run independent films on a regular basisthroughout the year. Every week, our festival presents an array of film,high-definition dance, theater, discussions, premieres and live events inthe Sedona Performing Arts Center, Mary D. Fisher Theatre, Harkins andother venues. Our main event, the nine-day Sedona International FilmFestival typically takes place at Mary D. Fisher Theatre the last week ofFebruary each year. We feature premieres of more than 160 independent filmsfrom around the world, Q&A discussions with filmmakers, free workshops,seminars and panel discussions, and much more.
$1,981,867 spent$1,043,824 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,981,867.
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 $810k to $1.7M (+113%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Linda Goldenstein
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $277k → $187k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop’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
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 55% · 2019 71% · 2020 59% · 2021 51% · 2022 25% · 2023 43% — 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
59% of Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $724k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
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 Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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 Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop: 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 Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop?
- Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop (Arizona) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,084,072 to it, the largest being THE KLING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,043,600). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,084,072 in grants to Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop?
- THE KLING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,043,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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