For independent filmmakers, fiscal sponsorship creates opportunity and incentive for funding!
Are you a filmmaker fundraising for your noncommercial film project? Are you applying for grants from a private foundation and/or government agency? Having a non-profit status may help you raise money!
Chicago Filmmakers’ fiscal sponsorship program is designed to assist local, independent filmmakers in their fundraising efforts by sponsoring noncommercial film or video productions under our non-profit status. The program helps independent filmmakers reach their fundraising goals by accepting donations for projects through our 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt status when projects align with our mission.
How Sponsored Projects Benefit
Chicago Filmmakers has been providing fiscal sponsorship services for more than 30 years. With our non-profit tax-exempt status, sponsored artists become eligible for funding from private foundations and government agencies who often don’t support individuals. For individual donors and in-kind support, this arrangement is a major incentive since it allows for charitable contribution deductions on federal tax returns.
Interested in fiscal sponsorship through Chicago Filmmakers? Learn more about eligibility and the application process by reviewing the guidelines below. Feel free to contact us at education@chicagofilmmakers.org with any questions.
SPONSORED FILMS
Fiscally sponsored projects include the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentaries Among Wolves (2016) by Shawn Convey and Halsted Street, USA (1997) by David Simpson; powerful profiles of extraordinary women Never Turning Back: The World of Peggy Lipschutz (2008) by Jerri Zbiral and Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women (1988) by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss; as well as lauded documentaries about legendaries Art Paul Of Playboy: The Man Behind The Bunny (2017) by Jian Ping and Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) by Deb Ellis and Dennis Mueller.
