How much does Academy Foundation give?

Academy Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $76,931,121 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Academy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%), Education (0%), Employment (0%).

Who are Academy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Academy Museum Foundation ($416M), Archival Foundation ($178M), The Vine Street Archive Foundation ($58M).

Does Academy Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Academy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Perspective Media Initiatives Inc, The Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films Inc.

Where is Academy Foundation based?

Academy Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Academy Foundation

The ACADEMY FOUNDATION was established with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the educational and cultural activities of the motion picture industry, including the presentation of its history and the promotion of its future including the margaret herrick library, the print and film archives and the academy museum of motion…

$77M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 3
Grants FY2025: 3
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,635,096
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,465,561
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 85; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $68M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Academy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	3	$76M	0%
FY2024	3	$83M	0%
FY2023	3	$82M	0%
FY2022	3	$96M	0%
FY2021	3	$97M	0%
FY2020	85	$70M	42%
FY2019	38	$63M	45%
FY2018	49	$43M	43%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$655MEducation$245kEmployment$188kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kYouth Development$128kHuman Services$65kCivil Rights$25kInternational$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Academy Museum Foundation	$416,070,315	9	97%
Archival Foundation	$177,528,890	9	99%
The Vine Street Archive Foundation	$58,025,107	9	97%
Michigan Theater Foundation Inc	$200,000	1	4%
Film Independent	$115,000	2	1%
Sundance Institute	$110,000	3	0%
International Documentary Foundation Inc	$105,000	3	1%
Frameline Inc	$105,000	3	5%
Women in Film	$97,500	2	3%
The Ghetto Film School Inc	$95,000	3	2%

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All grantees of Academy Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Academy Museum Foundation	$416,070,315	9	97%
Archival Foundation	$177,528,890	9	99%
The Vine Street Archive Foundation	$58,025,107	9	97%
Michigan Theater Foundation Inc	$200,000	1	4%
Film Independent	$115,000	2	1%
Sundance Institute	$110,000	3	0%
International Documentary Foundation Inc	$105,000	3	1%
Frameline Inc	$105,000	3	5%
Women in Film	$97,500	2	3%
The Ghetto Film School Inc	$95,000	3	2%
Streetlights	$82,500	3	13%
National Association of Latino Independent Producers Inc	$82,500	2	6%
Kartemquin Educational Films	$80,000	3	1%
Maysles Institute Inc	$62,500	4	5%
Educational Video Center Inc	$62,500	4	3%
Center for Asian American Media	$60,000	2	2%
Chicken & Egg Films Inc	$57,500	3	1%
Outfest	$57,500	2	2%
Inner-City Filmmakers	$57,500	3	21%
Uniondocs Inc	$55,000	4	2%
Asian Cine-Vision Inc	$55,000	3	38%
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc	$55,000	4	0%
Women Make Movies Inc	$52,500	3	0%
Visual Communications Media	$52,500	3	4%
San Francisco Film Society	$52,500	4	1%
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago	$52,500	3	3%
Independent Feature Project Inc	$52,500	3	0%
National Film Preservation Foundation	$50,000	1	7%
Siff	$50,000	1	2%
Jewish Film Institute	$50,000	3	1%
Scribe Video Center Inc	$50,000	3	3%
New Orleans Film & Video Society Inc	$50,000	3	1%
Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking Inc	$47,500	3	1%
The American Film Institute	$47,500	3	0%
Facets Film Forum	$45,000	3	3%
American Museum of the Moving Image	$45,000	1	1%
Ragtag Film Society	$42,500	3	1%
Pan African Film Festival Inc	$37,500	1	5%
Big Sky Film Institute	$35,000	3	4%
Film at Lincoln Center Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Points North Institute	$35,000	3	2%
Media Arts Center San Diego	$35,000	2	2%
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project	$35,000	2	5%
International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago	$32,500	2	12%
Atlanta Jewish Film Society Inc	$32,500	2	1%
Echo Park Film Center	$31,000	3	5%
African Diaspora Film Festival Inc	$30,000	1	31%
Indie Memphis	$30,000	1	4%
American Museum of Natural History	$30,000	3	0%
Exceptional Minds	$30,000	1	1%
The Center for Documentary Studies	$28,500	3	0%
Internews Network	$28,000	1	0%
Silver Bullet Productions	$27,500	3	n/a
George Eastman Museum	$27,500	2	0%
Hollywood Cinema Productions Resources	$27,500	2	n/a
Mizna	$25,000	1	7%
New York Women in Film & Television Inc	$25,000	1	1%
California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Jacob Burns Film Center Inc	$25,000	2	0%
The New Festival Inc	$25,000	1	4%
The Film Society of Minneapolis St Paul	$25,000	2	1%
Cleveland Film Society	$25,000	2	0%
Firelight Media Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Blackstar Projects Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Muslim Public Affairs Council Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Smithsonian Institution	$25,000	1	0%
The Flaherty Film Seminarintl Film Seminars	$25,000	1	n/a
The Silent Film Festival	$22,500	2	2%
Indigenous Showcase	$22,500	1	n/a
Northwest Film Forum	$20,000	1	3%
Austin Film Festival Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Cinema Tropical Inc	$20,000	1	11%
Film Forum Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Montclair State University Foundation Inc	$19,500	2	0%
African Film Festivalinc	$17,500	2	4%
San Francisco Cinematheque	$17,500	1	14%
International Childrens Media Center	$17,500	2	4%
Filmforum Inc	$16,500	1	8%
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop	$15,000	1	1%
California Film Institute	$15,000	1	0%
Rosendale Theatre Collective Inc	$15,000	1	7%
Creative Capital Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$15,000	1	n/a
Glas Animation	$15,000	1	10%
Utah Film Center	$15,000	1	0%
Inner-City Arts	$15,000	1	n/a
International Film Seminars Inc	$15,000	1	3%
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation	$12,500	1	1%
Youth Fx Inc	$12,500	1	2%
Columbia Film Society	$12,500	1	1%
Diamond in the Raw	$10,000	1	14%
Berklee College of Music Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Art Institute of Chicago	$10,000	1	0%
Subway Cinema Dba Asian Film Festival	$10,000	1	n/a
Southern Documentary Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
Canyon Cinema Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Unam USA	$10,000	1	0%
Gala Inc Grupo de Artistas Latino Americanos	$10,000	1	0%
American Documentary Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Anthology Film Archives	$10,000	1	1%
International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Filmaid International Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Raw Art Works Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Venice Arts	$10,000	1	1%
Southern Oregon Film Society Ashland Independent Film Festival	$10,000	1	2%
Film Society of Austin Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Denver Film Society	$10,000	1	0%
Fresh Films	$10,000	1	1%
Leap Inc	$10,000	1	0%
California Institute of the Arts	$7,500	1	0%
Berkshire International Film Festival Corp	$7,500	1	2%
New York International Childrens Film Festival Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Milwaukee Film Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Docs in Progress Inc	$7,500	1	2%
New York Stage and Film Inc	$7,500	1	0%
The Washington DC International Film Festival Inc	$6,500	1	n/a

Academy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 107.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Perspective Media Initiatives IncNY36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · The Ford Foundation · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc · Hollywood Foreign Press Association · The San Francisco Foundation · Sundance Institute · Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust · Michigan Theater Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Cinereach Ltd · California Humanities

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Academy Foundation

How much does Academy Foundation give?: Academy Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $76,931,121 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Academy Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%), Education (0%), Employment (0%).
Who are Academy Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Academy Museum Foundation ($416M), Archival Foundation ($178M), The Vine Street Archive Foundation ($58M).
Does Academy Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Academy Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Perspective Media Initiatives Inc, The Ford Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films Inc.
Where is Academy Foundation based?: Academy Foundation is based in CA.