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The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout

The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,616 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($56,183). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$25k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$197k
Net assets
$-316839
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout does

Mission

Promotion of arts and culture of young artists, including annual film festival, NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Youth.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. In 2025, we screened over 230 amazing short films representing 26 US states and 27 countries. We provide a first-class festival experience that includes four days of film screenings, parties, networking events, panels, and more.

    $155,925 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $155,925.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($226k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets 100 ($77k)2018 Revenue 114 ($258k) Expenses 147 ($227k) Net assets 136 ($104k)2019 Revenue 120 ($270k) Expenses 187 ($288k) Net assets 113 ($87k)2020 Revenue 120 ($270k) Expenses 185 ($285k) Net assets 94 ($72k)2021 Revenue 90 ($204k) Expenses 178 ($274k) Net assets 3 ($2k)2022 Revenue 104 ($234k) Expenses 344 ($530k) Net assets -382 ($-294057)2023 Revenue 111 ($251k) Expenses 230 ($355k) Net assets -517 ($-397421)2024 Revenue 111 ($250k) Expenses 142 ($218k) Net assets -476 ($-366285)2026 Revenue 11 ($25k) Expenses 3 ($5k) Net assets -412 ($-316839)
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Revenue (11)Expenses (3)Net assets (-412)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $166k to $337k (+103%).

$78k
$108k
$92k
$166k
$337k
$214k
$110k
$114k
$0
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 12% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 11% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
’17
$30k
’18
−$18k
’19
−$15k
’20
−$70k
’21
−$296k
’22
−$104k
’23
$31k
’24
$20k
’26
6.2
months of
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.

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Listed69138121189
Joined·+3+8+2+6+6+3+1
No longer listed·0472760
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $34k → $29k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout’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 Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout.

29%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 29% · 2020 93% · 2021 51% · 2022 34% · 2023 52% — growing more concentrated.

“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

29% of The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

53% of The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
CA
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.

Federal$30k
grants $30kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$30k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout?
The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,616 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($56,183). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $196,616 in grants to The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout?
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Talented Youth NFFTY National Film Festival for Talented Yout find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 12 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