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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.

$242k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$32k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$495kHealth$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $89,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $242,430 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $152,930 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.
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jaripeo Documentary LLC$32,000
JVB Project LLC$30,000
NY Labor Documentary LLC$15,000
Walking Iris Media$12,500
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Center for Independent Docume: $50k → 16%Family Pictures LLC: $32k → 10%Bay EMT: $10k → 10%Walking Iris Media: $13k → 10%NY Labor Documentary LLC: $15k → 14%Time Hunter LLC: $30k → 14%Rosewater Pictures LLC: $30k → 9%POWWOW PEOPLE LLC: $30k → 11%JVB Project LLC: $30k → 17%Spectrascopic LLC: $30k → 20%Realside Productions Inc: $30k → 28%Fire Through Dry Grass LLC: $15k → 9%Jaripeo Documentary LLC: $32k → 13%Artical Motion: $25k → 15%Joonam Film LLC: $12k → 10%BelleMoon Productions: $52k → 10%Disclosure 2 Film LLC: $52k → 14%Tail Bite Tail Inc: $30k → 17%Punching Mantis Shrimp LLC: $30k → 20%Open Captions LLC: $15k → 14%International Documentary Ass: $30k → 14%Flowers In Fog LLC: $32k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $127k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Tokyo$85k · 67% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Feature Film

London$42k · 33% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Feature Film · Film Production

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. 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.
03Its field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 22 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BelleMoon Productions: $52,000 · OtherBelleMoon ProductionsDisclosure 2 Film LLC: $52,000 · OtherDisclosure 2 Film LLCFamily Pictures LLC: $32,005 · OtherFamily Pictures LLCJaripeo Documentary LLC: $32,000 · OtherJaripeo Documentary LLCFlowers In Fog LLC: $32,000 · OtherFlowers In Fog LLCRealside Productions Inc: $30,000 · OtherRealside Productions IncJVB Project LLC: $30,000 · OtherJVB Project LLCTME HUNTER LLC: $30,000 · OtherTME HUNTER LLCRosewater Pictures LLC: $30,000 · OtherRosewater Pictures LLCTail Bite Tail Inc: $30,000 · OtherTail Bite Tail IncPOWWOW PEOPLE LLC: $30,000 · OtherPOWWOW PEOPLE LLCInternational Documentary Ass: $30,000 · OtherInternational Documentary AssSpectrascopic LLC: $30,000 · OtherSpectrascopic LLCPunching Mantis Shrimp LLC: $30,000 · OtherPunching Mantis Shrimp LLCArtical Motion: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $57,000 · Other+4 moreTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER …WALKING IRIS MEDIA: $12,500 · Arts & CultureWALKING IRI…BAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM: $10,000 · Education
Other$552,005Arts & Culture$62,500Education$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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALKING IRIS MEDIA: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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 CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
  • Who funds WALKING IRIS MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM ↗

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.

Sundance InstituteUT17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sundance Institute · International Documentary 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 Field of Vision Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Field of Vision Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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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Find your warmest path to Field of Vision Inc 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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