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Cinereach Ltd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0198% 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$5.4MReligion$343kCommunity Improvement$110kPhilanthropy$85kEmployment$68kEnvironment$53kAnimals$25kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$200,000
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 12%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WILD INDIAN LLC: $30k → 11%BLACK LILY INC: $40k → 22%FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC: $32k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY: $100k → 10%COUSIN COLLECTIVE INC: $60k → 11%BLACK MOTHER LLC: $100k → 7%AFRONANTS LLC: $40k → 13%PROGRAM RELATED INVESTMENTS: $329k → 17%BULL FILM LLC: $35k → 10%AMERICAN UNIVERISTYCENTER FOR MEDIA&SOCIAL IMPACT: $45k → 14%BORSCHT CORP: $70k → 15%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $300k → 21%INDIE MEMPHIS: $53k → 17%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $200k → 5%SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY: $50k → 10%FIRESTARTER FILMS LLC: $35k → 14%GOSPEL OF MATTHEW LLC: $35k → 7%PROGRAM RELATED INVESTMENTS: $175k → 17%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $50k → 21%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $200k → 5%OTV OPEN TELEVISION INC: $75k → 14%BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION: $38k → 10%PRESERVE FILM LLC: $80k → 17%BORSCHT CORP: $53k → 15%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $200k → 5%SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $42k → 17%TERRI'S TRAVEL FUND LLC: $40k → 14%MAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $69k → 17%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $42k → 14%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $89k → 17%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $85k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS PRODUCTIONS INC: $80k → 17%THE BLACK TV & FILM COLLECTIVE INC: $47k → 20%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $62k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS PRODUCTIONS INC: $53k → 17%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $43k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $35k → 17%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $200k → 14%FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $100k → 17%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $125k → 14%SUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $100k → 14%CINEMA TROPICAL INC: $54k → 17%CINEMA TROPICAL INC: $54k → 17%CINEMA TROPICAL INC: $38k → 17%CHAINED FOR LIFE LLC: $35k → 20%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $85k → 17%COSIGN LLC: $50k → 17%COSIGN LLC: $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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
MD
DE
KS
TN
DC
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 27 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
107

Total granted

$4.0M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+33%

Still filing today

59%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureHealthEmploymentEnvironmentSocial ScienceCivil RightsOther
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

  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $350k · revenue +153%
  • WM
    WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $290k · revenue +82%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $168k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • FIRELIGHT MEDIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +147%
  • PF
    PRESERVE FILM LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $80k
  • OO
    OTV Open Television Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +3%
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.

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Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…

Arts & Culture
3
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
4
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
5
American Documentary Inc

A national non-profit media arts organization, american documentary strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. we collaborate with passionate filmmakers to amplify their voices, nuture the…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
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
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago

Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…

Arts & Culture
12
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Independent Documentary Inc; the most unlike its peers is Media Collective Inc. 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

35 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. 35 of the 135 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROGRAM RELATED INVESTMENTS: $503,672 · OtherPROGRAM RELATED INVESTMENTSBORSCHT CORP: $151,500 · OtherSan Francisco Film Society: $150,000 · OtherBLACK MOTHER LLC: $126,500 · Other+100 more: $2,442,228 · Other+100 moreSundance Institute: $1,150,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $289,893 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $167,694 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCCINEMA TROPICAL INC: $166,666 · Arts & CultureCINEMA TROPICAL INC+19 more: $837,726 · Arts & Culture+19 moreFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $85,000 · PhilanthropySUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $52,631 · EnvironmentSTOCKADE WORKS INC: $37,750 · EmploymentMEDIA COLLECTIVE INC: $20,833 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · HealthVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA: $10,000 · Social Science
Other$3,373,900Arts & Culture$2,961,979Civil Rights$100,000Philanthropy$85,000Environment$52,631Employment$37,750Health$25,833Social Science$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSundance Institute: $1,150,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $350,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $289,893 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $167,694 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCINEMA TROPICAL INC: $166,666 over 4y, 43% of budgetBORSCHT CORP: $151,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $96,525 over 2y, 12% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTV Open Television Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $74,137 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINDIE MEMPHIS: $73,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetUNIONDOCS INC: $68,510 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCousin Collective Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $52,631 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BLACK TV & FILM COLLECTIVE INC: $47,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $44,738 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPENHOOD INC: $43,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $41,881 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTOCKADE WORKS INC: $37,750 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated: $37,635 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $31,553 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $26,315 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $21,053 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOCS IN PROGRESS INC: $21,053 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMEDIA COLLECTIVE INC: $20,833 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $18,695 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVISUAL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $2,631 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CINEMA TROPICAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BORSCHT CORP ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Film Society ↗
  • Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYSLES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds OTV Open Television Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIE MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds UNIONDOCS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cousin Collective Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BLACK TV & FILM COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
  • Who funds OPENHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗

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.

The Ford FoundationPerspective Media Ini…Sundance InstituteAcademy FoundationChicken & Egg Films I…Catapult Film FundThe San Francisco Fou…John D and Catherine …The Denovo InitiativeWyncote FoundationCalifornia HumanitiesSurdna Foundation Inc
The Ford FoundationNY31.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Sundance Institute · Academy Foundation · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · Catapult Film Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Denovo Initiative · Wyncote Foundation · California Humanities · Surdna 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 Cinereach Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cinereach Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cinereach Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Cinereach Ltd 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 135 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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