California · Nonprofit
The Film Preserve
The Film Preserve (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,251 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($180,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $256k
- Net assets
- $60k
What The Film Preserve does
Mission
To restore, preserve, and provide access to the world's cinematic heritage, ensuring that films -of all genres and eras- remain accessible for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through education, advocacy, and collaboration, SFFP aims to inspire a deeper appreciation for the art of film while safeguarding its cultural significance for years to come. In 2025, the organization worked to restore the exceptional Lewis Milestone feature film The Garden of Eden. The organization programmed 11 free online webinars on topics related to film heritage. Titles in the collection were screened 45 times in 2025.
$362,349 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,349.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 The Film Preserve’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 Film Preserve leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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 The Film Preserve.
“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
94% of The Film Preserve'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $241k 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.
Against its field
The Film Preserve runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Film Preserve
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.
Public support
0%
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 The Film Preserve: 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 Film Preserve?
- The Film Preserve (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,251 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($180,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Film Preserve have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $256,251 in grants to The Film Preserve.
- Who is the largest funder of The Film Preserve?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Film Preserve 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3 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