The NFPF Needs Your Help
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Joan Crawford fundraises for a Texas clinic that cared for children with polio in this 1952 teaser, preserved by George Eastman Museum through a 2025 NFPF grant.
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As 2025 comes to a close, the National Film Preservation Foundation needs your support. Since its founding nearly 30 years ago the NFPF has worked to save America’s film heritage and make it available to new audiences. More than 2,950 films have been preserved by 343 organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. More than 350 films are available to stream for free on the NFPF website.
Please consider donating to the NFPF’s year-end 2025 fundraising appeal.
The NFPF is dedicated to saving “orphan” films with no corporate home that would not survive without public support. Silent films by John Ford, Lois Weber, Ernst Lubitsch, and Tod Browning; mid-century gems by Charles and Ray Eames, Samuel Beckett, and Harry Smith; independent documentaries, animation, historically significant home movies, and many others are among the films that will live on thanks to NFPF grants.
While the NFPF receives government funding that it provides to the larger film preservation community, it cannot use federal funds for general operations. It relies on public generosity to continue its mission of saving moving images deeply in need of care.
In 2026, Congress will be considering legislation reauthorizing the NFPF for the future. A show of financial support will help demonstrate the value of ensuring that America’s cinematic memory survives for future generations.
In the coming year the NFPF will:
- Continue its groundbreaking preservation grant program, with a renewed focus on silent works in need of digital restoration
- Improve and expand free streaming of preserved films on a new website
- Showcase the importance of film in documenting American life as the country celebrates its first 250 years
- Begin work on a touring program of preserved films to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the NFPF in 2027
The NFPF cannot accomplish these things without public support. As 2025 comes to an end, please consider a gift and help enable a new chapter in film preservation and access.
You can give directly through PayPal to admin@filmpreservation.org, visit our donation portal, or send a check to the NFPF, 145 9th Street, Suite 260, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Happy holidays!