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Grantmaking public charityEIN 522055624

National Film Preservation Foundation

San Francisco, CA 94103

Total Assets

$3.5M

FY 2024

Annual Giving

$685K

FY 2024

Grants Made

33

FY 2024

Avg Grant

$21K

FY 2024

Grant Range

Typical

Deadlines

Applications

Programs & Activities

Program 1

$199K

Promoting Access. The NFPF websites online component of The Field Guide to Sponsored Films (2006) hosts 198 films free to stream from 12 organizations. In addition, the NFPF funded three access projects in 2021 to George Eastman Museum, Northeast Historic Film, and UCLA to create 4K scans of past grant projects. Once digitized, these will join 107 films preserved through NFPF programs already available in the online screening room as part of the launch of the NFPFs new streaming initiative. Additionally, the NFPF has continued working to preserve American films found only in international archives and make them available to stream. The NFPF also assists the Library of Congress in implementing selected recommendations found in the National Recording and National Film Preservation Plans.

Program 2

$60K

Promoting film preservation through publications. The foundation produces DVD sets in the Treasures from American Film Archives series and books that advance national film preservation efforts. With support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the NFPF continues production on Treasures 6: Next Wave Avant-Garde Film, a 5-hour DVD box set surveying 28 experimental filmmakersfrom Abigail Child to Phil Solomonwho rose to prominence after 1965.

Focus Areas

ArtsCulture & Humanities

Financial Snapshot

2024 filing

Total Revenue

$1.5M

Total Expenses

$1.2M

Giving Over Time

4 years

Giving over time from 2020 to 2024. Peak $1.1M in 2023. Hover bars for details.

Total dollars recorded per filing year. Scale adjusts to the foundation's range.

Top Recipients

100 grants

Grant Size Distribution

100 grants

<$10K
18
grants
$10–50K
72
grants
$50–250K
9
grants
$250K–1M
1
grants
$1–5M
$5M+

Geographic Focus

22 states

Alaska
$892K
28% of total
New York
$598K
19% of total
California
$591K
19% of total
District of Columbia
$273K
9% of total
Illinois
$193K
6% of total
Tennessee
$112K
4% of total
Connecticut
$88K
3% of total
Pennsylvania
$71K
2% of total
Kentucky
$62K
2% of total
South Carolina
$51K
2% of total

+12 more states

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