Illinois · Public charity
Chicago Media Project
To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. We are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.
- $91k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $40k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $335k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Chicago Media Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $40k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $65k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $204k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $40k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $95k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $344k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $178k | 89% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $45k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knock Down the House LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sundance Institute | $68,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Utah Film Center | $66,000 | 1 | 1% |
| One Story Up | $62,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Documentary Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hot Docs Foundation USA Inc | $58,000 | 3 | 52% |
| Talos Films | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tripod Media | $37,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catapult Film Fund | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Treeclimber Media LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 40 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knock Down the House LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sundance Institute | $68,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Utah Film Center | $66,000 | 1 | 1% |
| One Story Up | $62,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Documentary Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hot Docs Foundation USA Inc | $58,000 | 3 | 52% |
| Talos Films | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tripod Media | $37,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catapult Film Fund | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Treeclimber Media LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Next Generation Production LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Storyline Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Ifc Theatres LLC | $20,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Mezcla Media Collective LTD | $20,073 | 1 | 13% |
| Breakwater Studios | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shine Global Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Principe Productions Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Fulton Landing Productions LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Film Independent | $19,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pueblo Sight & Sound Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dear Evanston | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Points North Institute | $12,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Incite Productions Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kirsten Kelly | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Westchester Institute for Human Development | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kartemquin Educational Films | $9,990 | 1 | 0% |
| We Call Bs LLC | $9,941 | 1 | n/a |
| Bvm Productions LLC | $9,657 | 1 | n/a |
| Siskeljacobs Production | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unapolegtic Film LLC | $8,064 | 1 | n/a |
| I Love You Chingos LLC | $8,059 | 1 | n/a |
| Green River Films | $7,501 | 1 | n/a |
| New Wave Productions LLC | $7,423 | 1 | n/a |
| Tallgrass Educational Films Co Joseph Winston | $7,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Janes Film LLC | $6,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble | $5,060 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chicago Media Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: Sundance Institute · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Catapult Film Fund · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Chicago Media Project
- How much does Chicago Media Project give?
- Chicago Media Project reported 2 itemized grants totaling $40,000, out of $90,586 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Chicago Media Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Health (2%), International (2%).
- Who are Chicago Media Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Knock Down the House LLC ($100k), Sundance Institute ($68k), Utah Film Center ($66k).
- Does Chicago Media Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chicago Media Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sundance Institute, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Catapult Film Fund.
- Where is Chicago Media Project based?
- Chicago Media Project is based in IL.
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