Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,400,492
- Total expenses
- $1,378,782
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,389,220
- Grants paid
- $921,370
- Program service revenue
- $59
- Investment income
- $10,508
- Other revenue
- $705
- Total assets, end of year
- $3,439,067
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $951,063
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $2,488,004
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,292,515
- Management and general expenses
- $75,730
- Fundraising expenses
- $10,537
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,292,515
Program services were 93.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$6,031
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$1,027,600
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$355,589
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2a · Program service revenue: Licensing and other fees
total $59 · related or exempt $59
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3 · Investment income
total $10,508 · related or exempt $10,508
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Misc. income
total $705 · related or exempt $705
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11e · Other revenue, total
$705
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $921,370 · program services $921,370
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $115,838 · program services $103,097 · management and general $10,425 · fundraising $2,316
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $168,698 · program services $150,141 · management and general $15,183 · fundraising $3,374
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $3,459 · program services $3,079 · management and general $311 · fundraising $69
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $39,941 · program services $35,547 · management and general $3,595 · fundraising $799
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $22,138 · program services $19,703 · management and general $1,992 · fundraising $443
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11a · Fees: management
total $3,315 · management and general $3,315
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $24,070 · management and general $24,070
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $5,359 · management and general $5,359
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11g · Fees: other
total $1,250 · program services $1,250
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $16,640 · program services $9,133 · management and general $4,315 · fundraising $3,192
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14 · Information technology
total $8,045 · program services $7,545 · management and general $409 · fundraising $91
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15 · Royalties
total $9,400 · program services $9,400
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16 · Occupancy
total $12,510 · program services $11,134 · management and general $1,126 · fundraising $250
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17 · Travel
total $620 · program services $620
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $5,618 · management and general $5,618
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24a · Other expenses: Miscellaneous
total $20,295 · program services $20,295
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24b · Other expenses: Printing and Publications
total $114 · program services $102 · management and general $10 · fundraising $2
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24c · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping
total $102 · program services $99 · management and general $2 · fundraising $1
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24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
end of year $0
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $2,685,456 · end of year $2,657,179
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $292,113 · end of year $222,398
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $42,741 · end of year $42,726
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $5,929 · end of year $5,565
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$21,806
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$21,806
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $461,982 · end of year $508,227
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $5,152 · end of year $2,972
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $93,597 · end of year $13,685
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $971,060 · end of year $934,905
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $4,653 · end of year $2,473
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $8,788 · end of year $1,728
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,415,275 · end of year $2,486,276
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
The NFPF is a nonprofit organization established in the District of Columbia resulting from an Act of Congress in order to preserve and make publicly accessible our nations film heritage. The NFPF works with archives to preserve American films and improve access for education and exhibition.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The NFPF helps nonprofit and public organizations across all 50 states to preserve American films that are unlikely to survive without public support. Through our grants and projects, 2,954 films have been saved and made publicly available for education and exhibition.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $1,093,687 · Grants $905,370
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Promoting Access. The NFPF websites online component of The Field Guide to Sponsored Films (2006) hosts 205 films free to stream from 12 organizations. The NFPF added 6 silent films to its site and upgraded 5 films to HD video. All were derived from HD scans provided by the Library of Congress. In total, 380 films are available for viewing on the NFPF website as part of the launch of the NFPFs new streaming initiative. The NFPF also assists the Library of Congress in implementing selected recommendations found in the National Recording and National Film Preservation Plans.
Expenses $134,435 · Grants $23,000
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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.
Expenses $64,393
As filed on the 2025 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
Listed in Part VII
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Jeffery Lambert
Sec/Treas/Dir.
- Total calculated
- $113,568
- From this org
- $113,568
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Grover Crisp
Chair/Pres.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Eric J Schwartz
Vice Chair/V.P.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Larry Karaszewski
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cecilia deMille Presley
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Zooey Deschanel
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alfre Woodard
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Leonard Maltin
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Scott M Martin
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John Ptak
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Scott Stuber
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Martin Scorsese
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
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$181,930
Film preservation
-
$60,830
Film preservation
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$56,710
Film preservation
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$54,400
Film preservation
-
$51,610
Film preservation
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$42,740
Film preservation
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$42,570
Film preservation
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$36,080
Film preservation
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$30,120
Film preservation
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$26,130
Film preservation
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 18 August 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202622309349302032
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