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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
REDFORD CENTER INC$50,000
DOC SOCIETY$50,000
CINEMA TROPICAL$50,000
VIDEO VERACITY INC$40,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$40,000
LIFE MEDIA PROJECTS INC$30,000
LEVEL GROUND INC$30,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%UNION DOCS: $50k → 20%UNIONDOCS INC: $50k → 20%UNIONDOCS INC: $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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MD
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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%
+8%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • JV
    Just Vision Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +9%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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6
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
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
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
10
Filmmakers Collaborative

Filmmakers Collaborative is a non-profit media organization with a mission to catalyze positive change through the power of filmmaking.

Arts & Culture
11
Cinespeak
Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
40/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherMUSICIANS ACCORDINC: $50,150 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,150 · OtherBUSHWICK FILM FESTIVAL: $40,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC: $35,000 · OtherINDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC: $30,000 · OtherCREATIVE KIDS INC: $50,150 · OtherLIFE MEDIA PROJECTS INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherFREEDOM ORG: $30,000 · OtherTruthAids dba Truth Aid: $25,000 · OtherTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $50,000 · 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 ScienceJust Vision Inc: $50,150 · InternationalGISA INC: $30,000 · InternationalPRINCIPE PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 · International
Arts & Culture$8,297,148Other$495,450Philanthropy$198,150Environment$125,000Civil Rights$105,150Social Science$100,150International$90,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJust Vision Inc: $50,150 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCREATIVE KIDS INC: $50,150 over 1y, 9.4% 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 budgetBIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLEVEL GROUND: $30,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMu Films: $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFREEDOM ORG: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGISA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetChicago Filmmakers: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetINDEPENDENT PRODUCTION FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTruthAids dba Truth Aid: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetStudio IX: $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWE WERE THERE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetARMENIAN FILM SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYOUTH FX INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chicken & Egg Films Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chicken & Egg Films Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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