California · Nonprofit
UNAFF
UNAFF (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $851,932 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ($851,932). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $215k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $852k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Unaff does
Mission
Showing documentaries regarding universal declaration of human rights
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
One of the oldest documentary festivals in the us, held for 11 days, presents 60 films from 400-700 submitted and organizes panels with experts. 30 jurors select the screened films and give out 6 awards. Year-round documentary film screenings and panels programs addressing kids, students, seniors, women, libraries and veterans. Draws on its around 10000 film archive to engage diverse segments of our community.
$165,202 spent100% of program spending- 11 days of the festival 40 guest filmmakers - 60 films screened - 7 expert panel discussions - 1 day event for children - 7 special screening event in libraries - 5 special event in senior centers - 4 special screening events with other organizations - 1 special event for women - 2 traveling film festivals - 26 member jury deliberations for a month - 6 awards given
Extends the life of its films through traveling film festivals (us & abroad), collaborating with other film festivals and organizations, including the camera as witness educational program.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $23k (−67%).
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: 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of UNAFF’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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $52k → $107k.
From the IRS filings of UNAFF’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.
Where its funders are
100% of UNAFF's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
UNAFF runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNAFF
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 UNAFF: 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 UNAFF?
- UNAFF (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $851,932 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ($851,932). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNAFF have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $851,932 in grants to UNAFF, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNAFF?
- INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $851,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNAFF 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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