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YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS

YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$50k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$3k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Youth Film Productions does

Mission

The purpose of this organization is to provide film activities to the youth and teach them about the film industry.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Grant was used to produce films

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($50k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2021 Revenue 100 ($50k) Expenses 96 ($47k) Net assets 300 ($3k)
20202021
Revenue (100)Expenses (96)Net assets (300)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars.

$0
$3k
20202021
Total assets

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.

2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’20
$3k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $15k.

From the IRS filings of YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS’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

YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS 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 YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.

“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

YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS has grown faster than half of the 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

Organizations like YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

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 YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS: 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 YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS?
YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,000 in grants to YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS?
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH FILM PRODUCTIONS 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 FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), 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