· Public charity
Doc Society Inc
We bring people together to unleash the transformational power of independent documentary film.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $313,075 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,136,661 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $823,586 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
- $250k+1 grant · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MEMORY PROJECT LLC | $251,750 |
| PLAN C FOR CIVILIZATION LLC | $23,750 |
| CAESURA FILMS | $17,575 |
| POINTS NORTH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BGDM | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $819k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: FILM PRODUCTION
Stated purpose: FILM PRODUCTION
Stated purpose: FILM PRODUCTION
Stated purpose: FILM PRODUCTION
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PPPHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION3× · 2020–2022 · $117k · revenue +16%
AMISTAD LAW PROJECT2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +52%- WNWhy Not Prosper Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +295%
Funded once
- GPGREENER PASTURES FILM LLCone grant, 2020 · $143k
- OTOUR THEORY LLCone grant, 2020 · $121k
- ADASOCIACION DE DOCUMENTALISTAS DE PRgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +46% · 31% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Women In Media encourages gender balance in film and entertainment industries by providing networking, professional development, and advocacy for above and below the line women and all genders who love making movies with them.
To present independent films from around the world to deepen audiences' understanding of culture, tolerance, and common humanity.
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Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allied Media Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION DE DOCUMENTALISTAS DE PR ↗
- Who funds EARTH DAY TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CAFA-THIRD HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LEADS INC ↗
- Who funds Points North Institute ↗
- Who funds STORYLINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Why Not Prosper Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sundance Institute · The Ford Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Doc Society 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.
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.
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