· Private foundation
European Languages and Movies in America
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BALKAN CULTURAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GOETHE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION OF LA | $5,000 |
| THEATER RAYMOND KABBATZ AT THE FRENCH LYCEE | $4,000 |
| SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL | $4,000 |
| ANIMATION IS FILM FESTIVAL | $3,500 |
| CINEMAGIC | $3,500 |
| CONTEMPORARY IRISH ARTS CENTER LOS ANGELES | $2,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +30%
- SESOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL7× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +75%
- SHSCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- OOUTFESTone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -70%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
Devoted to a greater appreciation of indian cinema and culture by showcasing films, supporting emerging filmmakers, and promoting the diverse perspectives of the indian diaspora.
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…
Offer cultural experience
Armenian film society celebrates armenian culture through year-round programming of film screenings, discussions, workshop, and lectures. it shines a spotlight on armenian films and filmmakers, as week as films that deal with armenian…
The association promotes independent films by providing venues for the projection and viewing of film projects and hosting an annual film festival as well as independent live events.
SF IndieFest presents important independent narrative, documentary, and short films from around the world.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BALKAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCREAMFEST HORROR FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GOETHE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds POLISH AMERICAN FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE ↗
- Who funds OUTFEST ↗
- Who funds CINEMAGIC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds CIACLA - CONTEMPORARY IRISH ARTS CENTER LOS ANGELES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hollywood Foreign Press Association · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization European Languages and Movies in America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from European Languages and Movies in America. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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