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Allied Media Projects Inc

Allied media projects cultivates media strategies for a more just, creative, and collaborative world.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$3.1M
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 FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$20MArts & Culture$4.7MEducation$2.4MHuman Services$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MHealth$899kCivil Rights$883kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 58 grants below total $10,443,341 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,883,826 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $440,485 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $863k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $781k
  • $250k+7 grants · $8.7M
$30,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$3,137,865
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT$1,880,048
THE SKOLL FOUNDATION$1,189,325
DISABILITY VISIBILITY LLC$837,000
FORD FOUNDATION$808,901
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION$579,916
MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION$308,028
EMERGENCE MEDIA LLC$235,473
HOUSE AQUEMINI$90,028
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$55,000
THE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN INC$50,000
EL PUENTE DE WILLIASMBURG INC$50,000
BURNAWAY INC$50,000
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS INC$50,000
JACOBS PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $250k → 26%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE NATIONAL: $103k → 10%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $10k → 14%KAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC: $926k → 16%SWOP BEHIND BARS INC: $20k → 13%FOUNDATION ATCA: $5k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%TRANSFORMING POWER FUND: $142k → 21%FORCE DETROIT: $25k → 21%TRANSFORMING POWER FUND: $13k → 21%WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METRO DETROIT: $50k → 21%WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METRO DETROIT: $45k → 21%WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METRO DETROIT: $45k → 21%TRICITIES CDC: $6k → 21%AUNTIE NA S VILLAGE: $25k → 21%ST MOSES THE BLACK: $5k → 21%METROPOLITAN DETROIT DIAPER BANK: $5k → 21%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

AK
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 55% of Allied Media Projects Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Allied Media Projects Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 63 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
86

Total granted

$7.1M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+6%

Still filing today

68%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • ME
    MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +10%
  • LB
    LOVE BLDG INCORPORATED
    2× · 2022–2023 · $612k · revenue +64% · 66% of their budget
  • GI
    GRACE IN ACTION COLLECTIVES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $335k · revenue +176% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • KF
    KAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $926k · revenue -63%
  • TH
    THE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -59%
  • NY
    NEW YORK TIMES
    one grant, 2022 · $174k

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.

1
The Conversationalist
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2
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
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3
The Oakland Institute

The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
6
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
7
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
8
Creative Time Inc

Creative time commissions, produces and presents temporary public arts projects.

Arts & Culture
9
Studio Atao
Arts & Culture
10
Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities

Michigan roundtable for just communities is a racial and social justice organization whose purpose is eradicate racism, discrimination, and systemic inequities by cultivating multigenerational just and beloved communities.

Religion
11
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
12
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Immigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool Parent OrganizationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Community Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…
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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%50%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/181
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,384

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.

05the grantee network

125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 181 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)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/125
Grantees still filing
71/125
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $13,738,241 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation IncTHE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT — $1,880,048 · PhilanthropyTHE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENTTHE SKOLL FOUNDATION — $1,189,325 · PhilanthropyTHE SKOLL FOUNDATIONTHE FORD FOUNDATION — $808,901 · Philanthropy+6 more — $861,353 · PhilanthropySOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $4,215,525 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND…+15 more — $728,250 · Education+15 moreDISABILITY VISIBILITY LLC — $837,000 · OtherDISABILITY VISIB…EMERGENCE MEDIA LLC — $426,860 · OtherEMERGENCE MEDIA …The Point Community Development Corporation — $254,000 · OtherBOULEVARD HARAMBEE — $209,729 · OtherNEW YORK TIMES — $174,000 · OtherGRACE IN ACTION COLLECTIVES — $334,630 · OtherGRACE IN ACTION …+90 more — $2,789,823 · Other+90 moreLOVE BLDG INCORPORATED — $611,605 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute — $225,000 · Arts & CultureBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureCURATIONIST FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE IN DETROIT — $111,618 · Arts & CultureBURNAWAY INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureCINESPEAK — $80,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $525,466 · Arts & CultureKAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC — $925,625 · Human ServicesTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI — $250,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMING POWER FUND — $155,314 · Human ServicesWARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $140,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL — $102,500 · Human Services+10 more — $120,974 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION — $1,068,236 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $88,325 · Environment+3 more — $45,500 · EnvironmentNORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION — $307,963 · Community ImprovementOKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INC — $147,500 · Community Improvement1 Michigan for the Global Majority — $55,000 · Community ImprovementMARCH 13 FUND — $39,325 · Community ImprovementURBAN CORE COLLECTIVE — $28,750 · Community ImprovementDETROIT PEOPLES COMMUNITY — $27,500 · Community Improvement+4 more — $45,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$18,477,868Education$4,943,775Other$5,026,042Arts & Culture$2,228,689Human Services$1,694,413Environment$1,202,061Community Improvement$651,538

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $13,738,241 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $4,215,525 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT — $1,880,048 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SKOLL FOUNDATION — $1,189,325 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION — $1,068,236 over 3y, 23% of budgetKAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC — $925,625 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE FORD FOUNDATION — $808,901 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE BLDG INCORPORATED — $611,605 over 2y, 66% of budgetTHE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $579,916 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE IN ACTION COLLECTIVES — $334,630 over 7y, 57% of budgetNORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION — $307,963 over 5y, 54% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation — $254,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI — $250,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSundance Institute — $225,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOULEVARD HARAMBEE — $209,729 over 3y, 55% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $195,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSFORMING POWER FUND — $155,314 over 2y, 14% of budgetNew York University — $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INC — $147,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetWARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $140,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetMUSLIM ANTI-RACISM COLLABORATIVE — $129,489 over 1y, 21% of budgetCURATIONIST FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWe the People MI — $120,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE IN DETROIT — $111,618 over 2y, 26% of budgetBURNAWAY INC — $110,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $105,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $102,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN — $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC — $95,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $88,325 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANOPY CANOPY CANOPY INC — $85,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCINESPEAK — $80,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIDEWALK DETROIT — $75,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetYoung Nation — $55,500 over 2y, 52% of budget1 Michigan for the Global Majority — $55,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAKECUTTER INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWE WANT GREEN TOO — $46,250 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetAsian Arts Initiative — $45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetEXPERIENCE LEARNING COMMUNITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Ford FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Kresge FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Skillman Foundati…NEO Philanthropy IncProteus Fund IncSurdna Foundation IncSolutions Project IncNew Venture FundUnited Way for Southe…Rockefeller Philanthr…
The Ford FoundationNY41.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Skillman Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Solutions Project Inc · New Venture Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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 Allied Media Projects Inc 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 · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 181 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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