California · Nonprofit
THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND
THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,300 to it, the largest being FRANCES & BENJAMIN BENENSON FOUNDATION INC ($204,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $484k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $545k
- Net assets
- $23k
What The Grateful Film Fund does
Mission
The fund's mission is to help create, support, and promote thought-provoking and aesthetically superior media projects that inspire positive action and change by presenting real-world solutions to complex issues and ideas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Grateful Film Fund works to support film projects that fall within its mission to inspire positive change but that may have trouble gathering funding from other sources. Each project is completed under the umbrella of the fund's fiscal sponsorship program, ensuring that all projects support the fund's charitable and educational mission. In 2023, the fund sponsored the following documentary projects:who are the marcuses?: the year's "great documentary" (film threat) uncovers a mysterious long island couple whose half a billion-dollar gift inspires peace and climate action through water tech. Featuring warren buffett, ellen marcus, israel president isaac herzog, seth m. Siegel, e. Randol schoenberg, daniel gordis, and micah goodman.vanish mode: a documentary about the present day drug epidemic imperiling the lives of america's youth. A family seeks answers and healing after the untimely death of their son while a rolling stone magazine journalist investigates the link between the social media giant snapchat and rampant fentanyl poisoning.israel: a concise history of a nation reborn.
$447,772 spent$13,842 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,772.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1 to $23k (+2260400%).
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.
97% of THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Rob Hollman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 GRATEFUL FILM FUND’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 GRATEFUL FILM FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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
THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND has grown faster 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 GRATEFUL FILM FUND
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND: 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 GRATEFUL FILM FUND?
- THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,300 to it, the largest being FRANCES & BENJAMIN BENENSON FOUNDATION INC ($204,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $545,300 in grants to THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND?
- FRANCES & BENJAMIN BENENSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $204,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GRATEFUL FILM FUND 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 10 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