Illinois · Nonprofit
TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC
TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Truth First Film Alliance - Inc does
Mission
Truth First Film Alliance, Inc. promotes, supports, and encourages the production and exhibition of documentary films, and narrative films based on true stories, through public presentations and educational programs in the Quad Cities region. Our programs include film screenings and discussions with visiting filmmakers and classroom visits to talk about film and filmmaking with students. Programs may include a small annual scholarship for a student pursuing a degree in media studies, and grants to filmmakers producing a documentary film or a narrative film based on a true story. We may also host a one-time film showcase (multiple films) or a one-time or annual film festival. Truth First Film Alliance, Inc. has non-profit status in the State of Illinois and 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Grants to filmmakers for documentary films.
$0 spentof which $58,758 as grantsGrants to documentary film series event programmers.
$0 spentof which $500 as grantsSpecial documentary film screening at Augustana College in Rock Island (in-kind contribution).
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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) — 60% 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 TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - 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
TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
60% 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 TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - 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
60% of TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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In Illinois
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Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC?
- TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC?
- QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUTH FIRST FILM ALLIANCE - INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), 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