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Entertainment Industry Foundation

To coordinate the philanthropy of the entertainment industry.

$54M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$8.4M
Largest
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.

Health$225MEducation$38MFood & Nutrition$5.6MPhilanthropy$5.4MArts & Culture$4.0MInternational$3.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.4MYouth Development$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 73 grants below total $26,612,690, the rows itemized in this filing. The $54,286,840 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,674,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $567k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+21 grants · $23M
$75,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (AACR)$8,439,404
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$2,022,500
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$1,850,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI (AACR #6209)$1,337,500
BROAD INSTITUTE$1,140,000
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$930,000
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$900,000
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$888,994
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$751,428
ROYBAL FILM AND TELEVISION MAGNET$700,000
PROVIDENCE HEALTH SYSTEM - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ITS WHOLLY OWNED AFFILIA$596,500
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$550,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR$508,740
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$422,910
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$409,530
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FEONIX MOBILITY RISING: $36k → 13%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $25k → 9%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER Fdn: $10k → 6%CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $20k → 20%MANO AMIGA: $25k → 10%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $10k → 14%FIRST STEP: $20k → 21%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $10k → 21%FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT: $25k → 10%MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $25k → 9%YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $10k → 19%FEONIX MOBILITY RISING: $32k → 13%TEENS EXERCISING EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS: $20k → 15%SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE: $200k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $25k → 23%REIMAGINEATL: $25k → 14%PROJECT 150: $50k → 13%DESERT MISSION INC: $32k → 11%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $30k → 14%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $20k → 14%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $25k → 20%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $55k → 10%THE PEOPLE'S CONCERN SOJOURN WOMEN'S SHELTER: $25k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND INC: $25k → 8%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $15k → 14%FAMILY RESCUE: $20k → 14%VILLAGE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $25k → 22%SAFE HORIZON: $25k → 17%MANIFESTWORKS: $25k → 14%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSoc: $314k → 14%HELPING OPPRESSED MOTHERS ENDURE: $25k → 14%HELPING OPPRESSED MOTHERS ENDURE: $20k → 14%JENESSEE CENTER: $25k → 14%TRIAGE CANCER: $28k → 14%TRIAGE CANCER: $28k → 14%FREE FROM: $35k → 14%FRIENDS OF ISLAND ACADEMY: $20k → 17%RAINBOW SERVICES: $25k → 14%GIVE DIRECTLY: $150k → 17%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $33k → 17%KINDNESSORG INC: $200k → 17%KIDS OPERATING ROOM USA INC: $150k → 17%KINDNESSORG INC: $14k → 17%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATITON: $133k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $15k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $15k → 14%PROJECT KNUCKLEHEAD: $25k → 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

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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252M · 91 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
337

Total granted

$252M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

92%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AA
    American Association for Cancer Research Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $177M · revenue +12% · 41% of their budget
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    6× · 2018–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +52%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.3M · revenue +65%
  • NC
    NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $697k
  • NL
    NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -74%
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
6
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Equality Federation Institute

Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.

Civil Rights
12
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Xq Institute. 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

442 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 442 of the 473 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)
72
Early backer (in before they grew)
435/442
Grantees still filing
285/442
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Association for Cancer Research Inc: $177,337,372 · HealthAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc+49 more: $27,088,347 · Health+49 moreICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $8,037,584 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF M…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,381,572 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,211,494 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,065,594 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF C…New York University: $3,990,000 · EducationNew York Universi…The Trustees of Princeton University: $3,650,000 · EducationThe Trustees of P…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $3,250,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER U…Yale University: $3,196,923 · EducationYale UniversityXQ INSTITUTE: $1,765,513 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,565,276 · Education+14 more: $3,984,724 · Education+14 moreMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $7,055,821 · OtherMASS GENE…LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,630,000 · OtherLOS ANGEL…VCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS: $1,600,000 · OtherVCUVCU HE…THE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA: $999,999 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $1,102,000 · OtherHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $900,000 · OtherGLSEN INC: $1,000,000 · Other+67 more: $11,268,481 · Other+67 moreTHE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact Fund: $915,000 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $696,080 · PhilanthropyACM LIFTING LIVES: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyPUERTO RICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $200,000 · Philanthropy+12 more: $1,297,532 · PhilanthropyDIRECT RELIEF: $1,059,480 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $910,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $566,100 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $447,664 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $175,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $151,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $150,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP: $130,000 · International+2 more: $126,000 · InternationalFeeding America: $1,919,602 · Food & NutritionFood Research & Action Center: $861,468 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $264,675 · Food & Nutrition+6 more: $421,253 · Food & NutritionSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $725,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC: $421,378 · Arts & CultureBLACK THEATRE COALITION INC: $360,000 · Arts & CultureECOEXPLORATORIO INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $140,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $114,435 · Arts & CultureLIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBRIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $215,605 · Arts & Culture
Health$204,425,719Education$45,098,680Other$25,556,301Philanthropy$5,458,612International$3,715,744Food & Nutrition$3,466,998Arts & Culture$2,576,418

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $177,337,372 over 8y, 41% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $8,037,584 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,443,886 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,381,572 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,211,494 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,542,734 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,065,594 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $3,990,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,650,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $3,250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYale University: $3,196,923 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $2,354,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $2,070,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $1,919,602 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetXQ INSTITUTE: $1,765,513 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,565,276 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $1,333,332 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,302,461 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $1,102,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,059,480 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $1,037,501 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGLSEN INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $915,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $910,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $900,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $900,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $861,468 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $725,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $700,001 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $696,080 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetSalud Integral de la Montana Inc: $692,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $657,773 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $596,574 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $576,216 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $575,043 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $575,043 over 2y, 18% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $566,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN CANCER CONFERENCE INC: $500,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $447,664 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $421,378 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $375,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $362,203 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK THEATRE COALITION INC: $360,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $354,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $342,857 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $337,098 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Tides CenterCA35.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Center · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Actblue Charities Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Weingart Foundation

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 Entertainment Industry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Entertainment Industry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
49report 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.

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 473 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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