Georgia · Nonprofit
TRILITH INSTITUTE INC
TRILITH INSTITUTE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,734,152 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,234,152). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Trilith Institute Inc does
Mission
The trilith institute is dedicated to the discovery, development, and professional advancement of great storytellers who inspire the world. By providing a wide range of opportunities for all ages and career statuses, trilith institute seeks to cultivate an environment for writers, directors, producers, performers, and arts educators to become a driving force of cultural impact in georgia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The script-to-screen summer camp offered an exceptional opportunity for aspiring filmmakers in grades 6 through 12. Through an immersive, hands-on camps spanning 6 weeks, students learned the art of screenwriting, film production, and editing. These camps were designed and led by entertainment industry professionals. Throughout the 5 weeks of programming, students heard from 12 guest speakers, each camper went on a studio tour, one lucky group toured the lux volume stage, trilith foundation provided five weekly wellness days, and the campers created four short films and 12 additional scripts. This program provided participants with a safe and supportive environment to learn the creative, cooperative, and collaborative skills crucial to future success in the entertainment industry.
$705,271 spent$49,590 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe professional education area saw a period of rapid growth and expansion thanks to previous work done in strategic analysis, design, development, and implementation of long-form, creative, industry-focused professional education courses. The department partnered with industry professionals, including those at the alliance theater, dad's garage, and misfit adventures to develop a specialized curriculum for adult learners. Skills-based courses were offered in foundations of filmmaking, introduction to screenwriting, television writing, introduction to visual effects and computer animation, the business of independent filmmaking, acting for camera, cinematic storyboarding, and narrative directing for the screen. Courses were offered in a variety of formats, including online, and lasted from 6 to 15 weeks. Additionally, students present their work each semester at the student showcase, where they network with industry professionals, pitch projects, and gain real-world experience in applying what they learned.
$798,660 spent$35,639 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe emerging creative residency program advanced from concept to tangible impact, delivering both completed works and meaningful workforce development opportunities. The year saw the successful completion of principal photography for a mess of memories, the program's first feature-length production, and the development of a polished pitch package for animation project junior detectives. Both projects served as evidence of the program's mission to generate original intellectual property from georgia-based creatives, further anchoring talent within the trilith community. A central achievement of the year was the creation of paid student crew positions, designed to pair emerging professionals with seasoned industry experts in a truly hands-on learning environment. These opportunities not only strengthened georgia's creative workforce pipeline but also ensured that students gained real-world production experience within a professional studio framework.
$781,591 spent22% of program spendingWorkshops - workshops were developed to support and cultivate creative talent at all ages. K-12 learners had access to workshops covering topics from writing in a weekend writers' workshop to performance in a musical theatre workshop taught by professional actors, to gear demonstrations, camera and grip, and electric equipment demonstrations from leaders in the film industry. Other k-12 workshops included: silent film, traditional storyboarding, babies off book and family storytelling. Adult learners and aspiring filmmakers participated in workshops to sharpen their distribution skills in the prepping for film festival workshop. We hosted a variety of other workshops including a pa series in which attendees learned how to survive the first days as an office, set, or post pa. Other workshops included: sound design, perfect the pitch with wifta, comedy writing, acting for camera, improv, voice acting, and our two part directing workshops.utopian - the organization provided a grant to utopian academy for the arts trilith, which provides an academically rich educational environment with creative digital arts pathways. This grant allowed the utopian academy of the arts to lease…
$1,193,177 spentof which $474,669 as grants$28,661 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,478,699.
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 $3.3M to $3.8M (+17%).
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 TRILITH INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey Stepakoff
Chairman & president
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.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 TRILITH INSTITUTE INC’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
TRILITH INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
83% 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 TRILITH INSTITUTE INC.
“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
83% of TRILITH INSTITUTE INC'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Georgia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TRILITH INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TRILITH INSTITUTE INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Trilith Institute Productions LLC · disregarded
- Writers' Room of Georgia LLC · disregarded
- Content Talent South Mgmt and Productions LLC · partnership
- Content Talent South Consulting LLC · partnership
- Content Talent South Holdings LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRILITH INSTITUTE INC: 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 TRILITH INSTITUTE INC?
- TRILITH INSTITUTE INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,734,152 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($7,234,152). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRILITH INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,734,152 in grants to TRILITH INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRILITH INSTITUTE INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,234,152 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRILITH INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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