Vermont · Nonprofit
White River Indie Films
White River Indie Films (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,828 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,000). 3 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
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $0
What White River Indie Films does
Mission
Visual art films - education, art, and participation in film and the issues that film reveals.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
WRIF is an educational non-profit that engages the public inpolitical & social issues through supporting visual art films.Hybrid (Virtual/In-Person)Festival drew over 600 people over 4 days.
$8,385 spent95% of program spendingWRIF 360 is a presentation of issue-oriented films. There were no presentations in 2023.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFreedom and Unity Youth (Virtual) Film Contest - a chance for young Vermonters to create films. Served more than 20 young filmmakersPrizes awarded to six teams.
$400 spentof which $400 as grants5% of program spendingWRIF has three main components - the WRIF Festival, which happens each Spring, WRIF 365 which expands film showings to year-round, and Freedom & Unity - a charitable project which supports young independent filmmakers. This year we completed the transition of our programs to CATV / Junction Arts & Media (JAM)another 501(c)3 charitable group. This established organization is much-better suited to managing the Film Festival and related activities.WRIF Festival - four-day film festival held at the Briggs Opera House. This event was managed by CATV/JAM. Over 600 people were in attendance.Freedom & Unity - held a Young VT Filmakers contest as part of WRIF. Multiple teams competed, with prizes awarded. The Emerging Filmmaker Contest served 20 young filmmakers.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,785.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $36k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Craig Sterritt
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $500.
1 of 5 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 White River Indie Films’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
White River Indie Films leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 White River Indie Films.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
60% of White River Indie Films'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.
Organizations like White River Indie Films
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for White River Indie Films: 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 White River Indie Films?
- White River Indie Films (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,828 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,000). 3 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 White River Indie Films have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $29,828 in grants to White River Indie Films, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of White River Indie Films?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like White River Indie Films find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2020–2023), and the filings of 5 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