How much did CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC grant in FY2024?

CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC reported 21 grants totaling $1,351,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC based?

CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC is based in NY.

CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC

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· Public charity

CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC

Chicken & egg films, inc., a new york-based nonprofit organization formed 2015, 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 FY2024

Grants

Communities

$285k

Largest

01What you fund

0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$7.1MPhilanthropy$198kEnvironment$125kCivil Rights$105kSocial Science$100kInternational$90kYouth Development$90kCommunity Improvement$30kHealth$25kOther$350k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

breakthrough awarddocentitiesgloballywelleditoriallegal

2019

videoempowerprogrammingserieseducationeducationalstorytellers

2020

kartemquinfilmmaker covidcovid reliefseekinformedempowerednoted

2021

northwest filmfilm forummakingskillsvisualsky filmstages

2022

amdocactivitiessocially relevantsocialdocdigitalentities

2023

lgbtqcreatefinance medicinemedicine healthhealth culturenativeprotection

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$9.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

WALKING IRIS MEDIA$285,000
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES$180,000
VIDEO VERACITY INC$150,000
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES$90,000
WALKING IRIS MEDIA$80,000
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION$80,000
AFTERIMAGE PUBLIC MEDIA$75,000
DOC SOCIETY$50,000
CINEMA TROPICAL$50,000
REDFORD CENTER INC$50,000
VIDEO VERACITY INC$40,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$40,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$30,000
LIFE MEDIA PROJECTS INC$30,000
LEVEL GROUND INC$30,000

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 11%. 68% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.0M · 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 +120% since the first grant, against +45% 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

Total granted

$7.0M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%

+45%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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 · $1.9M · revenue +63%
WI
WALKING IRIS MEDIA
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +415% · 31% of their budget
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION
6× · 2017–2024 · $529k · revenue +15%

Funded once

TA
THE AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC
one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -6%
JV
JUST VISION INC
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +10%
MA
MUSICIANS ACCORD
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -64%

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.

Independent Film Alliance

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The Filmmaker Fund

Philanthropy

Independent Arts & Media

Independent Arts & Media's mission is to steward and empower independent arts and media projects that foster community and civic participation, and facilitate cultural engagement and free expression.

Arts & Culture

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

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

Women in Film & Video Inc

Women in Film & Video (WIFV) provides professional development and networking opportunities for screen-based media makers, celebrates women's creative and technical achievements in media, and advocates for parity in front of and behind the…

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Baltimore Filmmakers Collective Inc

Arts & Culture

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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Cinestudio Inc

To celebrate film as art and to provide diverse audiences an eclectic mix of the world's best cinema experiences, presented at the highest technical level in a classic movie palace-like setting.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Film Society

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…

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Full Spectrum Features Nfp

Committed to driving equity in the independent film industry by producing, exhibiting, and supporting the work of women, bipoc, and lgbtq+ filmmakers. educate the public about important social and cultural issues, utilizing the power of…

Arts & Culture

Social Justice Film Institute

The mission of the Social Justice Film Institute is to encourage the appreciation of visual storytelling as a tool to social justice issues. Our primary program is the Social Justice Film Festival, a premier film festival in the U.S.…

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 Film Independent. 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.

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/63

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,502

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.

05the grantee network

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/61

Grantees still filing

44/61

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$7,100,948Other$495,450Philanthropy$198,150Environment$125,000Civil Rights$105,150Social Science$100,150International$90,150

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

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 Initiatives IncNY50.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Academy Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Catapult Film Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Inmaat Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Sundance Institute · Cinereach Ltd · The Rogovy Foundation · Jonathan Logan Family Foundation · 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: INTERFAZE MAIN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943228118 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on INTERFAZE MAIN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 39% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Chicken & Egg Films Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chicken & Egg Films Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chicken & Egg Films Inc?

More from the funding graph

CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chicken & Egg Films Inc?

More from the funding graph