Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$2,034,461

Total expenses

$1,562,099

Contributions and grants received

$1,902,794

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$131,667

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$5,973,880

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,060,893

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,912,987

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,327,964

Management and general expenses

$145,295

Fundraising expenses

$88,840

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,327,964

Program services were 85.0% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE FILM FOUNDATION (TFF) WAS CREATED IN 1990 BY MARTIN SCORSESE TO RAISE AWARENESS AND FUNDS FOR THE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF OUR CINEMATIC HISTORY. JOINING SCORSESE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARE LEADING FILMMAKERS COMMITTED TO ADVOCATING AND SUPPORTING FILM PRESERVATION. TFF IS ALIGNED WITH THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA.TFF HAS HELPED TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE OVER 1000 FILMS, INCLUDING A DIVERSE GROUP OF FEATURES, DOCUMENTARIES, NEWSREELS, SHORTS, HOME MOVIES, EXPERIMENTAL, AND SILENT FILMS.THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED THE WORLD CINEMA PROJECT (WCP), TO PRESERVE, RESTORE AND SHARE NEGLECTED WORKS BY (CONTINUE ON SCHEDULE O) FILMMAKERS FROM REGIONS ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE. TO DATE, 64 FILMS HAVE BEEN RESTORED AND SCREENED EXPOSING A NEW GENERATION TO CLASSIC CINEMA AND EDUCATE AUDIENCES ON THE IMPORTANCE FOR ITS PRESERVATION. AS PART OF THE WCP, THE FOUNDATION CREATED THE AFRICAN FILM HERITAGE PROJECT TO LOCATE, RESTORE AND PRESERVE SIGNIFICANT AFRICAN TITLES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PAN AFRICAN FEDERATION OF FILMMAKERS AND UNESCO. IN ADDITION, THE WCP PROVIDES TRAINING FOR STUDENTS AND ARCHIVISTS THROUGH ITS RESTORATION FILM SCHOOL HELD AT PARTNERING INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD.CRUCIAL TO THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS PROVIDING ACCESS TO ALL THE TITLES IT HELPS TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE. IN 2024, THERE WERE MORE THAN 900 SCREENINGS PRESENTED BITH VIRTUALLY AND IN PERSON, AT MUSEUMS, ARCHIVES, FESTIVALS, REPERTORY THEATERS, AND UNIVERSITIES.THE FOUNDATION MAINTAINS A CONSERVATION COLLECTION FOR FILMS RESTORED WITH ITS FUNDING. HELD AT THE ACADEMY FILM ARCHIVE, 35MM PRINTS, 70MM PRINTS, AND DIGITAL CINEMA PACKAGES ARE ADDED TO THE COLLECTION WHEN RESTORATION WORK IS COMPLETED.

  Expenses $474,901

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $577,901

• TFF PROVIDES ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS THROUGH ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH FILM FESTIVALS, MUSEUMS, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD. THE FOUNDATION ALSO HOSTS A WEBSITE TO EDUCATE VISITORS ABOUT ITS WORK, AS WELL AS SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CURRENT NEWS, RESOURCES, AND ARTICLES.

  Expenses $244,805

• ANOTHER KEY OBJECTIVE OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO PROTECT THE WORK OF FILM ARTISTS FROM CENSORSHIP, ALTERATION, AND INTERNET THEFT. IT CREATED THE ARTISTS RIGHTS EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FUND COUNCIL TO ADVOCATE FOR THE PROTECTION OF ARTISTS' RIGHTS.

  Expenses $30,357

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. 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

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA

  501(C)(5) · TO PROTECT DIRECTORIAL TEAMS' LEGAL AND ARTISTIC RIGHTS. · CA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

6 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202533109349304053

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