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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$655MEducation$245kEmployment$188kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kYouth Development$128kHuman Services$65kCivil Rights$25kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,635,096
Median grant
1
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION$50,465,561
ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION$15,635,096
VINE STREET ARCHIVE FOUNDATION$9,564,646
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTL INST FOR INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MGMT: $10k → 12%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%GLAS ANIMATION GLAS ANIMATION FESTIVAL: $15k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $30k → 14%REEL ABILITIES NY: $25k → 17%THE JEWSIH COMMUNITY CTR IN MANHATTAN INC: $15k → 17%JCC MANHATTAN: $8k → 17%JCC MANHATTAN: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$654M · 56 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
62

Total granted

$654M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AM
    ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $416M · revenue +138% · 97% of their budget
  • TV
    THE VINE STREET ARCHIVE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58M · revenue +65% · 97% of their budget
  • FILM INDEPENDENT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $115k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • MT
    MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +2%
  • NF
    National Film Preservation Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +113%
  • SIFFgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +262%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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2
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
3
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Devoted to a greater appreciation of indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, supporting emerging filmmakers, and promoting the diverse perspectives of the indian diaspora.

Arts & Culture
4
Art of Brooklyn Festival

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…

Arts & Culture
5
Dc Independent Film Festival

The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) showcases and supports local and international filmmakers and their work across the genres of fiction, animation, experimental and documentary through screening, discussion, professional…

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Independent Film Festival

SF IndieFest presents important independent narrative, documentary, and short films from around the world.

Arts & Culture
7
Centre Film Festival
Arts & Culture
8
American Cinematheque

The american cinematheque believes that cinema is a communal experience with the power to entertain, enlighten and inspire. we build a diverse and engaged film community through immersive film curation, conversation, and presentation. we…

Arts & Culture
9
Athens Film Arts Institute Inc Dba Cine

Cine enriches the quality of life in Athens, GA and the surrounding region by presenting film and arts that inspire, educate and sustainably build community.

Arts & Culture
10
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
11
Newfilmmakers Los Angeles

Works by emerging filmmkaers from around the world, providing the losangeles community of entertainment professionals and film goers with aconstant surge of monthly screening events. nfmla provides a forumwhere filmmakers can be recognized…

Arts & Culture
12
Sonoma Valley Film Festival

Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Film Institute and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Arts CentersImmigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Lgbtq+ Community Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%91%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr11%0%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/120
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,858

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 117 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/117
Grantees still filing
82/117
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $416,070,315 · Arts & CultureACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION+73 more — $2,562,000 · Arts & CultureARCHIVAL FOUNDATION — $177,528,890 · EducationARCHIVAL FOUNDATION+11 more — $217,000 · EducationTHE VINE STREET ARCHIVE FOUNDATION — $58,025,107 · PhilanthropyTHE VINE S…+1 more — $22,500 · PhilanthropyKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $80,000 · OtherEDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC — $62,500 · OtherOUTFEST — $57,500 · OtherSan Francisco Film Society — $52,500 · OtherNEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · OtherSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $50,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO — $32,500 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES — $28,500 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE FLAHERTY FILM SEMINARINTL FILM SEMINARS — $25,000 · OtherINDIGENOUS SHOWCASE — $22,500 · OtherVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $52,500 · OtherFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $25,000 · Other+7 more — $92,500 · OtherSTREETLIGHTS — $82,500 · EmploymentInner-City Filmmakers — $57,500 · EmploymentHOLLYWOOD CINEMA PRODUCTIONS RESOURCES — $27,500 · EmploymentTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL MINDS — $30,000 · Human ServicesCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesGLAS ANIMATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSIFF — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC — $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS MEDIA CENTER — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentDIAMOND IN THE RAW — $10,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$418,632,315Education$177,745,890Philanthropy$58,047,607Other$656,000Employment$167,500Human Services$125,000Youth Development$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $416,070,315 over 9y, 97% of budgetARCHIVAL FOUNDATION — $177,528,890 over 9y, 99% of budgetTHE VINE STREET ARCHIVE FOUNDATION — $58,025,107 over 9y, 97% of budgetMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $115,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSundance Institute — $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFrameline Inc — $105,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM — $97,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC — $95,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC — $82,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSTREETLIGHTS — $82,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $80,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC — $62,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC — $62,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCenter for Asian American Media — $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOUTFEST — $57,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetInner-City Filmmakers — $57,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC — $57,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN CINE-VISION INC — $55,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC — $55,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago — $52,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $52,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $52,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNational Film Preservation Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSIFF — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJewish Film Institute — $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE — $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC — $47,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE — $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFacets Film Forum — $45,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetRAGTAG FILM SOCIETY — $42,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL INC — $37,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO — $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPoints North Institute — $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetQueer Women of Color Media Arts Project — $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER OF CHICAGO — $32,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC — $32,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetECHO PARK FILM CENTER — $31,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetINDIE MEMPHIS — $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAFRICAN DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 31% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Perspective Media Ini…The Ford FoundationChicken & Egg Films I…Coolidge Corner Theat…Hollywood Foreign Pre…The San Francisco Fou…Sundance InstituteHollywood Foreign Pre…Michigan Theater Foun…California Community …Cinereach LtdCalifornia Humanities
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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Academy Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Film Society Ashland Independent Film Festival — 3% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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