New York · Public charity
Firelight Media Inc
Firelight media's mission is to provide filmmakers mentorship, funding, and creative development to support the creation, distribution, and impact of documentary media by and about communities of color in all our vibrance and complexity.
- $698k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 91%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $443k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 91% of the organizations Firelight Media Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $443k | 95% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $364k | 91% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $512k | n/a |
98% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$801kScience & Tech$299kEnvironment$30kReligion$30kYouth Development$23kCommunity Improvement$20kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
KY
MD
LA
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $64,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Theinbetweenfilm | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Abstract Nomadic Media Fvfk LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Steve Maing Films Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chimpanzee Productions Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| After Spring | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unseen Documentary LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Life Life LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Instrument Project LLC | $27,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwest Film Forum | $27,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 49 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $64,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Theinbetweenfilm | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Abstract Nomadic Media Fvfk LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Steve Maing Films Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chimpanzee Productions Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| After Spring | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unseen Documentary LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Life Life LLC | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Instrument Project LLC | $27,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwest Film Forum | $27,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Good Picture Inc | $27,000 | 1 | 67% |
| Indigo Films LLC | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Promised Land Film | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Talking Stones LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Raven Two Feathers | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mighty Squawk Productions LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fire Frog Media LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bully Creative Shop LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Untitled Disability Culture LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| What Will I Become | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amuletos Projects LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seeker Films LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seabreeze Media Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| I Love You Chingos LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Queens Disco Production LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Documentalista LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Matinino LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bimshire Project LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trojan Horse Media Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unit 6 Productions LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| You Don'T Know My Name | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pinball LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| We Love Morocco LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Figments of LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Moving Dreams Studios LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| House of the Young Entertainment | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Allensworth Film | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Walking Iris Media | $22,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Indija Productions LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Labor Documentary LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grumpy Squared LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Commuted Film LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jjigae Productions LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Andar Films inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Delu Productions LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atcv LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ilse Fernandez | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Aloha Pictures LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Post Gen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.
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 InstituteUT33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Sundance Institute · The Ford Foundation · 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.
About Firelight Media Inc
- How much does Firelight Media Inc give?
- Firelight Media Inc reported 20 itemized grants totaling $442,500, out of $697,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Firelight Media Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Science & Tech (23%), Environment (2%).
- Who are Firelight Media Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: The Center for Independent Documentary Inc ($64k), Theinbetweenfilm ($30k), Abstract Nomadic Media Fvfk LLC ($30k).
- Does Firelight Media Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 91% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Firelight Media Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sundance Institute, The Ford Foundation, International Documentary Foundation Inc.
- Where is Firelight Media Inc based?
- Firelight Media Inc is based in NY.
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