California · Public charity
Catapult Film Fund
Catapult Film Fund provides development funding to help story-driven and cinematicdocumentary films get off the ground. Catapult is not tied to any specific social issue agenda. We support and encourage filmmakers to tell a full range of stories on film in whatever form fits.
- $525k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $638k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Catapult Film Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $518k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $851k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $675k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $545k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $643k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $557k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $661k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $810,450 | 7 | 1% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $675,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $360,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Walking Iris Media | $220,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Uniondocs Inc | $172,300 | 6 | 2% |
| Film Independent | $165,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Utah Film Center | $145,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Redford Center Inc | $130,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Independent Filmmaker Project Midwest | $120,000 | 2 | 92% |
Show all 56 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Catapult Film Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Chicken & Egg Films Inc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Harnisch Family Foundation · Sundance Institute · California Humanities · The Denovo Initiative · Cinereach Ltd · Inmaat Foundation · The Rogovy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Catapult Film Fund
- How much does Catapult Film Fund give?
- Catapult Film Fund reported 17 grants totaling $525,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Catapult Film Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (94%), Environment (3%), Education (1%).
- Who are Catapult Film Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: International Documentary Foundation Inc ($810k), Women Make Movies Inc ($675k), The Center for Independent Documentary Inc ($360k).
- Does Catapult Film Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Catapult Film Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chicken & Egg Films Inc, Perspective Media Initiatives Inc, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Catapult Film Fund based?
- Catapult Film Fund is based in CA.
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