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Texas · Public charity

Film Society of Austin Inc

$201k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,648
Largest grant, FY2024
$80,240
Organizations funded a year
2 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Film Society of Austin Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$232k67%
FY202310$427k60%
FY20222$22k50%
FY202117$212k59%
FY202016$227k50%
FY201912$319k25%
FY201815$416k60%
FY201712$426kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MCommunity Improvement$211kScience & Tech$168kFood & Nutrition$24kReligion$21kHuman Services$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Patrick Bresnan$289,3243n/a
Four Pillars Films LLC$193,7753n/a
PJ Raval LLC$161,8127n/a
Sparkle Motion Films LLC$161,5984n/a
Sugarloaf Pictures LLC (Andrew Richey)$128,1402n/a
Mary Kathryn Robinson$119,0943n/a
Jumper Productions LLC$111,0141n/a
10th Street Films LLC (Heather Courtney)$83,4362n/a
Newbie Films LLC$80,2401n/a
Price for Progress LLC$79,2165n/a
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All grantees of Film Society of Austin Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Patrick Bresnan$289,3243n/a
Four Pillars Films LLC$193,7753n/a
PJ Raval LLC$161,8127n/a
Sparkle Motion Films LLC$161,5984n/a
Sugarloaf Pictures LLC (Andrew Richey)$128,1402n/a
Mary Kathryn Robinson$119,0943n/a
Jumper Productions LLC$111,0141n/a
10th Street Films LLC (Heather Courtney)$83,4362n/a
Newbie Films LLC$80,2401n/a
Price for Progress LLC$79,2165n/a
Two Birds Film$73,3353n/a
TTJ LLC (Margaret Brown)$62,4001n/a
Found Piece Productions$50,8401n/a
Tower Documentary LLC$46,2501n/a
Galan Incorporated$46,2501n/a
Karen Kocher$35,6362n/a
Passage Productions$34,5523n/a
Picturebox$31,1254n/a
Margaret Brown Productions LLC$28,6002n/a
Alexis Franco Architecture LLC$28,5462n/a
Heather Courtney$27,7501n/a
When We Were Live LLC$25,8323n/a
Beef and Pie LLC$24,1431n/a
Breaking Silence LLC (Amy Bench)$19,4001n/a
Title 8 Productions LLC$19,1872n/a
Anne Lewis$18,7992n/a
Karen Skloss$17,6372n/a
Tracy Frazier$17,0212n/a
Nothin No Better Film LLC$15,6662n/a
Flying Goose LLC$15,0001n/a
Berghaus Productions LLC$14,0371n/a
Fin & Fur Films Productions LLC$13,8751n/a
Ashley Starling Thomas$13,0001n/a
Christian Vasquez$12,5001n/a
Light From The East LLC$10,8601n/a
Pulpa Film LLC$10,7501n/a
Iliana Sosa$10,0001n/a
Real Southside LLC$10,0001n/a
Hurdle Film LLC$10,0001n/a
Paola Nicole Chi Amen$10,0001n/a
Dana Reilly (Mostly True Films LLC)$10,0001n/a
Color Arc Productions$10,0001n/a
Family Band LLC$10,0001n/a
Time and Place$10,0001n/a
Global Voice Productions (Seema)$9,6211n/a
Tal Vez Entertainment LLC$9,2501n/a
Spratx$8,6481n/a
Shadi W Qutob$8,0001n/a
Mei Makino$8,0001n/a
Texas USA Film$7,9551n/a
Walker Film LLC$7,0001n/a
Moonglass Pictures LLC$6,0001n/a
Paloma Hernandez Martinez$6,0001n/a
Blizco Productions LLC$5,4111n/a
Weekenders Media LLC$5,0001n/a

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About Film Society of Austin Inc

How much does Film Society of Austin Inc give?
Film Society of Austin Inc reported 9 grants totaling $200,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Film Society of Austin Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Community Improvement (9%), Science & Tech (7%).
Who are Film Society of Austin Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Patrick Bresnan ($289k), Four Pillars Films LLC ($194k), PJ Raval LLC ($162k).
Does Film Society of Austin Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Film Society of Austin Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sundance Institute.
Where is Film Society of Austin Inc based?
Film Society of Austin Inc is based in TX.

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 55 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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