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Ccff - Crystal Clear Film Foundation

Ccff exists to fund educational film projects and documentaries for distribution.

$460k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$435k
Largest
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 FY20172023.

Arts & Culture$3.4M
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $435k
$435,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$186k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEVEN FATHOM FILMS$435,000
SEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SEVEN FATHOM FILMS: $1.1M → 10%SEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC: $562k → 10%SEVEN FATHOM FILMS: $435k → 10%SEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC: $400k → 10%SEVEN FATHOM FILMS: $215k → 10%AUTISM MEDIA CHANNEL LLC: $135k → 10%SEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC: $110k → 10%SEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC: $79k → 10%TTAC PUBLISHING LLC: $50k → 10%SEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC: $25k → 10%AUTISM MEDIA CHANNEL LLC: $245k → 10%TOMMEY BURROWES PRODUCTIONS LLP: $5k → 10%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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 3 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$2.9M
$55k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

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

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.3M
  • SC
    SEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M
  • AM
    AUTISM MEDIA CHANNEL LLC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $380k

Funded once

  • TP
    TTAC PUBLISHING LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TB
    TOMMEY BURROWES PRODUCTIONS LLP
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2023.

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 20172023, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,340,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLC — $1,176,088 · OtherSEVENTH CHAKRA FILMS LLCSEVEN FATHOM FILMS — $435,000 · OtherSEVEN FATHOM FILMSAUTISM MEDIA CHANNEL LLC — $380,000 · OtherAUTISM MEDIA CHANNEL LLC+2 more — $55,150 · Other
Other$3,386,238

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ccff - Crystal Clear Film Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ccff - Crystal Clear Film Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 6 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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