Minnesota · Nonprofit
TWIN CITIES FILM FEST
TWIN CITIES FILM FEST (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,228 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($170,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $684k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $552k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Twin Cities Film Fest does
Mission
Twin Cities Film Fests mission is to build, support, and enhance our visual arts community through providing local film artists with education, training, networking, and distribution, and employment opportunities. The detailed full mission statement is available on schedule o.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of the Twin Cities Film Fest is to showcase exceptional independent films and independent artists. We promote industry talent, provide educational, networking and distribution opportunities that can expand careers and support thought provoking content. Our program showcases and premieres well over 120 films each year with over 80 filmmakers from around the country visiting or participating with their films. The filmmakers part-take in a discussion with the audiences after their screenings as well as invited to speak in an industry panel discussion that is complimentary for the community to attend.
$446,468 spent72% of program spendingWith year round programming and special events throughout the year, tcff is the perfect platform for independent filmmakers. Our monthly insider series showcases independent films from across the region as well as minnesota, while spotlighting phenomenal independent artists. Our goal is to give a national voice to local artists through these initiatives. With grant support from the minnesota state arts board and financial support from private donors and sponsors, weve been able to expand programming throughout the year.
$93,014 spent15% of program spendingEach year, tcff picks a specific cause during our changemaker initiative. From education, poverty, hunger prevention, bullying and sex trafficking, homeless youth and veteran support, tcff has been on the forefront of highlighting social causes via specialty programming. Showcasing documentaries on the selected cause, holding panel discussions as well as giving the annual changemaker award to a deserving community leader, tcff is truly giving back to the community and putting the focus on great work being done locally in the cause space.
$80,611 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $620,093.
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. 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 $113k to $54k (−53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 9% · 2020 15% · 2022 18% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 20% · 2026 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of TWIN CITIES FILM FEST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Jatin Setia
Founder executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $34k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 TWIN CITIES FILM FEST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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
TWIN CITIES FILM FEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 TWIN CITIES FILM FEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 59% · 2022 38% · 2023 74% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of TWIN CITIES FILM FEST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.
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
72% of TWIN CITIES FILM FEST'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 $154k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $398k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TWIN CITIES FILM FEST has grown faster than half of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like TWIN CITIES FILM FEST
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 TWIN CITIES FILM FEST: 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 TWIN CITIES FILM FEST?
- TWIN CITIES FILM FEST (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,228 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($170,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TWIN CITIES FILM FEST have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $552,228 in grants to TWIN CITIES FILM FEST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TWIN CITIES FILM FEST?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $170,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TWIN CITIES FILM FEST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing