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Array Alliance Inc

To advance social and cultural justice through the lens of storytelling and amplifying the stories of underrepresented communities by providing women filmmakers and people of color with resources needed to ensure their diverse perspectives have a platform for change.

$636k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$605k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Community Improvement$605kArts & Culture$284kScience & Tech$25kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $605k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HISPANIC FEDERATION$605,000
MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND$10,000
NEW REGRESS FILM COLLECTIVE LLC$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%FUND FOR GUARANTEED INCOME LLC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
SD
CA
NC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
2
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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3
National Film Preservation Foundation

The NFPF is a nonprofit organization established in the District of Columbia resulting from an Act of Congress in order to preserve and make publicly accessible our nations film heritage. The NFPF works with archives to preserve American…

Arts & Culture
4
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
5
The American Film Institute

The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.

Arts & Culture
6
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
7
Utah Film Center

Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.

Arts & Culture
8
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
9
Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…

Arts & Culture
10
Field of Vision Inc

Field of Vision is a filmmaker and artist driven organization that commissions, creates and supports original nonfiction films about developing and ongoing stories around the globe. Field of Vision supports work that uses innovative and…

Arts & Culture
11
Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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12
Film Forum Inc

Film forum's mission is two-fold: 1) to serve the general public by presenting the highest caliber of work to the widest possible audience - encouraging the appreciation of new, challenging films (both american and foreign films), and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Motion Picture and Television Fund; the most unlike its peers is Urbanworld Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $605,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INCTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PALEY CENTER FOR M…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCCUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM SOCIETY OF MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUrbanworld Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRONZELENS ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePROTEST ART PRODUCTIONS INC: $61,621 · OtherPROTEST ART PROD…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant…VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS: $20,000 · OtherVISUAL COMMUNICA…INDIGENE ENTERTAINMENT LLC: $10,000 · OtherINDIGENE ENTERTA…NEW NEGRESS FILM COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · OtherNEW NEGRESS FILM…SOL CINEMA CAFE INC: $10,000 · OtherSOL CINEMA CAFE …+2 more: $2,752 · OtherMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesFund for Guaranteed Income: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEW VENTURE FUND: $10,000 · EnvironmentHarvey Mudd College: $5,000 · Education
Community Improvement$605,000Arts & Culture$190,000Other$139,373Human Services$15,000Environment$10,000Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $605,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUCALORUS FILM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FILM SOCIETY OF MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrbanworld Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBRONZELENS ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Array Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Array Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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