Florida · Nonprofit
THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY
THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,596 to it, the largest being OUR FUND FOUNDATION INC ($74,601). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $911k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $355k
What The Broward County of Film Society does
Mission
The mission is to produce a fall film festival of international significance, to promote film as an art form and to provide the community with an outlet to seek alternative form of film.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The broward county film society inc in 2025 continued to provide for its communities and members screenings of new independent films at three theaters. The film society continues to produce news letters for its members and offers its theaters to local groups for a rental fee.
$709,697 spent$563,766 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe "fort lauderdale international film festival" (fliff) continued its internationally renowed three week film festival. In 2024 the 39th annual event ran from november 3 through november 16 screening over 200 films from 40 countries. Fliff annually sponsors a student to promote education for potential film makers. In 2025 the 40th annual festival was rescheduled to february 2026.
The film society ran 2 art house theaters throughout 2022. One was conducted at the savor center in which 20,000 participated and the other was held at the paradiso center in which over 8,000 people attended.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $709,697.
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.
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 $810k to $462k (−43%).
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 25% · 2018 18% · 2019 21% · 2020 39% · 2021 49% · 2022 27% · 2023 16% · 2024 13% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $35k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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: $119k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY’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
THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 2022 51% · 2023 39% — 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
25% of THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
73% of THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY'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 $49k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $525 on record.
- ADVERTISING - GENERAL $500
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $25
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 THE BROWARD COUNTY OF 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BROWARD COUNTY OF 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 THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY?
- THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,596 to it, the largest being OUR FUND FOUNDATION INC ($74,601). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $181,596 in grants to THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY?
- OUR FUND FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $74,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BROWARD COUNTY OF FILM SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 8 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