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Chicken & Egg Films Inc

Chicken & egg films champions women and gender-expansive documentary filmmakers around the globe with funding, mentorship, and access so they can tell stories that ignite change.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$285k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$9.0MEnvironment$125kYouth Development$100kInternational$50kPhilanthropy$35kCommunity Improvement$30kCivil Rights$20kEducation$10k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $805k
  • $250k+1 grant · $285k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALKING IRIS MEDIA$285,000
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES$180,000
VIDEO VERACITY INC$150,000
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES$90,000
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION$80,000
WALKING IRIS MEDIA$80,000
AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA$75,000
DOC SOCIETY$50,000
REDFORD CENTER INC$50,000
CINEMA TROPICAL$50,000
VIDEO VERACITY INC$40,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$40,000
LEVEL GROUND INC$30,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$30,000
LIFE MEDIA PROJECTS INC$30,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE: $70k → 8%AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA: $75k → 10%UNION DOCS: $170k → 13%MUSICIANS ACCORD: $50k → 28%CREATIVE KIDS: $50k → 21%JUST VISION INC: $50k → 14%THE ALLIANCE FOR MEDIA ARTS CULTURE: $100k → 12%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $50k → 8%VIDEO VERACITY INC: $150k → 23%DOCS IN PROGRESS: $50k → 8%REDFORD CENTER INC: $50k → 10%VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA: $50k → 14%UNIONDOCS INC: $50k → 20%UNIONDOCS INC: $50k → 20%UNION DOCS: $50k → 20%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $513k → 10%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $472k → 17%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $285k → 10%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $355k → 17%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $251k → 10%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $244k → 17%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $216k → 10%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $183k → 14%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $180k → 17%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $80k → 10%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $80k → 14%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $90k → 17%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $55k → 10%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $60k → 14%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $75k → 17%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $50k → 17%THE AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC: $60k → 20%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $50k → 17%INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT: $55k → 20%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $50k → 17%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $50k → 10%FILM INDEPENDENT INC: $70k → 14%FIM INDEPENDENT: $57k → 14%FIRELIGHT MEDIA: $50k → 17%CINEMA TROPICAL: $50k → 17%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

WA
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IL
NY
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PA
NJ
CA
UT
MD
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DC
OK
LA
TX
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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 22 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
35

Total granted

$8.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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 & CultureInternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentSocial ScienceOther

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

  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +82%
  • WI
    WALKING IRIS MEDIA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +664% · 31% of their budget
  • UI
    UNIONDOCS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • JB
    JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue -11%
  • AD
    AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -29%
  • RT
    RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

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
Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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2
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
3
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
4
WorkingFilms Inc

Recognizing the power of film to inspire, Working Films positions documentaries to increase civic engagement and shift culture at the local, state, and national level.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Dc Dox

Dc dox is a major international film festival in the nation's capital dedicated to promoting documentary film as a leading art form, championing new voices and innovations in non-fiction storytelling, and using film as a catalyst to engage…

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7
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
8
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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9
Dc Independent Film Festival

The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) showcases and supports local and international filmmakers and their work across the genres of fiction, animation, experimental and documentary through screening, discussion, professional…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Athens Film Arts Institute Inc Dba Cine

Cine enriches the quality of life in Athens, GA and the surrounding region by presenting film and arts that inspire, educate and sustainably build community.

Arts & Culture
12
Filmmakers Collaborative

Filmmakers Collaborative is a non-profit media organization with a mission to catalyze positive change though the power of filmmaking. Significant activities to support our mission in 2024 were the screenings and fundraising for the For Us…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Musicians Accordinc. 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 backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,502

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 63 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
39/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $2,623,831 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCWALKING IRIS MEDIA — $1,890,050 · Arts & CultureWALKING IRIS MEDIAINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $588,874 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INCUNIONDOCS INC — $542,570 · Arts & CultureUNIONDOCS INCTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $399,770 · Arts & CultureVIDEO VERACITY INC — $320,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more — $1,932,053 · Arts & Culture+32 moreKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $70,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $50,150 · OtherMUSICIANS ACCORDINC — $50,150 · OtherBUSHWICK FILM FESTIVAL — $40,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC — $35,000 · OtherINDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC — $30,000 · OtherJust Vision Inc — $50,150 · OtherGISA INC — $30,000 · OtherFREEDOM ORG — $30,000 · OtherTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $25,000 · OtherTruthAids dba Truth Aid — $25,000 · Other+5 more — $60,000 · OtherDOC SOCIETY INC — $163,150 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyREDFORD CENTER INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $85,150 · Civil RightsWE WERE THERE INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $100,150 · Social ScienceCREATIVE KIDS INC — $50,150 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE MEDIA PROJECTS INCORPORATED — $40,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$8,297,148Other$495,450Philanthropy$198,150Environment$125,000Civil Rights$105,150Social Science$100,150Youth Development$90,150

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 budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $2,623,831 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetWALKING IRIS MEDIA — $1,890,050 over 7y, 31% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $588,874 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC — $542,570 over 8y, 11% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $399,770 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetVIDEO VERACITY INC — $320,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $250,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $167,120 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOC SOCIETY INC — $163,150 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $145,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc — $144,240 over 2y, 18% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $120,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCINEMA TROPICAL INC — $110,150 over 3y, 27% of budgetVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA — $100,150 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $85,150 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND — $85,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA — $75,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $70,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAMERA NEWS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCREATIVE KIDS INC — $50,150 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $50,150 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDOCS IN PROGRESS INC — $50,150 over 1y, 13% of budgetINTERFAZE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS INC — $45,393 over 1y, 39% of budgetFILMSCENE — $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLIFE MEDIA PROJECTS INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC — $35,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetINDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC — $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLEVEL GROUND — $30,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMu Films — $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetGISA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetChicago Filmmakers — $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFREEDOM ORG — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStudio IX — $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTruthAids dba Truth Aid — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRADA COLLABORATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWE WERE THERE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 21% 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.

Perspective Media Ini…The Ford FoundationCatapult Film FundAcademy FoundationInmaat FoundationJonathan Logan Family…Sundance InstituteSilicon Valley Commun…John D and Catherine …Harnisch Family Found…Cinereach LtdWilliam F Harnisch Fo…
Perspective Media Initiatives IncNY55.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · The Ford Foundation · Catapult Film Fund · Academy Foundation · Inmaat Foundation · Jonathan Logan Family Foundation · Sundance Institute · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Harnisch Family Foundation · Cinereach Ltd · William F Harnisch Foundation 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 Chicken & Egg Films 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Chicken & Egg Films Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chicken & Egg Films Inc 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 63 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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