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Entertainment 2 Affect Change

ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE (e2ac) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to producing high quality digital, cinematic, and live entertainment for the express purpose of bringing positive change to underserved health and social communities.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$727k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$245kAnimals$240kEducation$67kInternational$44kHuman Services$14kEnvironment$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $727k
$45,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$444k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLA PRODUCTIONS$727,092
BELIEVE LIMITED$247,500
GREEN TIDE RISING$232,656
ISH DEVELOPMENT$200,000
WANDERLUST PRODUCTIONS LLC$150,000
LA MAESTRA DOC LLC$89,970
ARCADIAN ENTERTAINMENT LLC$78,050
SEA SISTERS LLC$74,251
DELIVER US FILM LLC$61,027
LAXMI'S HOPE LLC$59,599
UBIQUITOUS ENTERTAINMENT$50,000
88 PETALS PRODUCTION LLC$45,000
MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION$45,000
COLD COCKLE LLC$27,198
KIND ONES LLC$26,053
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JUST JUMP FILMS LLC: $19k → 12%MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%ROB GREEN-GRIZZLY: $14k → 9%RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL: $55k → 9%REBEL DOC LLC: $12k → 10%CHOICE DUDES: $7k → 10%PEN TO PAPER MEDIA LLC: $10k → 14%WILLA PRODUCTIONS: $727k → 14%ISH DEVELOPMENT: $200k → 17%REDINS LLC: $25k → 20%UBIQUITOUS ENTERTAINMENT: $50k → 10%LAXMI'S HOPE LLC: $60k → 8%88 PETALS PRODUCTION LLC: $45k → 9%AGGRESSIVELY COMPASSIONATE LLC: $9k → 14%ENDO COLLECTIVE: $8k → 18%WANDERLUST PRODUCTIONS LLC: $150k → 6%DIXENFELD MILLER WHITE PRODUCTIONS LLC: $25k → 6%UNSHAKEABLE PRODUCTION: $19k → 8%COLD COCKLE LLC: $83k → 14%WILLA PRODUCTIONS: $345k → 14%RDB PRODUCTION LLC: $6k → 17%REDINS LLC: $9k → 20%88 PETALS PRODUCTION LLC: $31k → 9%AGGRESSIVELY COMPASSIONATE LLC: $5k → 14%WANDERLUST PRODUCTIONS LLC: $90k → 6%UNSHAKEABLE PRODUCTION: $15k → 8%COLD COCKLE LLC: $27k → 14%ARCADIAN ENTERTAINMENT LLC: $78k → 17%CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $25k → 14%UNSHAKEABLE PRODUCTION: $10k → 8%BELIEVE LIMITED: $248k → 14%BELIEVE LIMITED LLC: $214k → 14%BELIEVE LIMITED: $75k → 14%DELIVER US FILM LLC: $150k → 14%DELIVER US FILM LLC: $120k → 14%DELIVER US FILM LLC: $61k → 14%TINY EDITS LLC: $7k → 14%KIND ONES LLC: $26k → 14%SEA SISTERS LLC: $74k → 14%GREEN TIDE RISING: $233k → 14%LA MAESTRA DOC LLC: $90k → 14%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
MN
IL
NY
CA
UT
NE
MD
MS
TX
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.
$2.1M · 9 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$2.1M
$454k

Still filing today

0%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $943k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • WP
    WILLA PRODUCTIONS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M
  • BL
    BELIEVE LIMITED
    2× · 2023–2024 · $323k
  • WP
    WANDERLUST PRODUCTIONS LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $240k

Funded once

  • BL
    BELIEVE LIMITED LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $214k
  • DU
    DELIVER US FILM LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $120k
  • RS
    RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
1/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLA PRODUCTIONS: $1,072,092 · OtherWILLA PRODUCTIONSBELIEVE LIMITED: $322,500 · OtherBELIEVE LIMITEDWANDERLUST PRODUCTIONS LLC: $240,000 · OtherWANDERLUST PRODUCTIONS LLCGREEN TIDE RISING: $232,656 · OtherGREEN TIDE RISINGBELIEVE LIMITED LLC: $213,750 · OtherBELIEVE LIMITED LLCDELIVER US FILM LLC: $211,027 · OtherDELIVER US FILM LLCISH DEVELOPMENT: $200,000 · OtherISH DEVELOPMENTDELIVER US FILM LLC: $120,052 · Other+19 more: $798,907 · Other+19 moreThe McKnight Foundation: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $25,000 · Public BenefitENDO COLLECTIVE INC: $7,500 · HealthChoice Dudes: $6,560 · Civil RightsRB PRODUCTIONS: $5,754 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,410,984Philanthropy$45,000Public Benefit$25,000Health$7,500Civil Rights$6,560Arts & Culture$5,754

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 budgetThe McKnight Foundation: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetENDO COLLECTIVE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetChoice Dudes: $6,560 over 1y, 54% of budgetRB PRODUCTIONS: $5,754 over 1y, 3.6% 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 The McKnight Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ENDO COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Choice Dudes ↗
  • Who funds RB PRODUCTIONS ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Entertainment 2 Affect Change funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Entertainment 2 Affect Change. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Entertainment 2 Affect Change?

    Find your warmest path to Entertainment 2 Affect Change 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 32 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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