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Golden Globe Foundation

The GOLDEN GLOBE FOUNDATION was formed to promote social welfare by making payments to or for the use of charitable organizations or for charitable purposes, and to carry out and support the charitable, literary, scientific and educational activities and undertakings of charitable organizations identified or connected with the motion…

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 80 grants below total $2,875,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,998,243 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $123,243 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$125M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS$400,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$230,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$150,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC$100,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$87,500
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$85,500
LABORATORY FOR ICON & IDIOM INC AKA INDIECOLLECT$75,000
SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL$75,000
STORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC$55,000
PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING$50,000
FILMAID INTERNATIONAL (INTERNEWS)$50,000
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION$50,000
PROPUBLICA$50,000
NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION$50,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA$50,000
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DISABILITY BELONGS (FKA RESPECTABILITY): $20k → 6%MANIFESTWORKS: $10k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC: $20k → 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

NY
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
FL
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 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
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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4
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
5
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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6
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
7
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Utah Film Center

Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.

Arts & Culture
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
American Cinematheque

The american cinematheque believes that cinema is a communal experience with the power to entertain, enlighten and inspire. we build a diverse and engaged film community through immersive film curation, conversation, and presentation. we…

Arts & Culture
11
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
12
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manifestworks; the most unlike its peers is St Elmo Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 80 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
25/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FILM INDEPENDENT: $230,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONSundance Institute: $87,500 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteLABORATORY FOR ICON AND IDIOM INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLABORATORY FOR ICON AND IDIOM INCSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $379,500 · Arts & Culture+22 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $85,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHO…THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationTHE SANTA MONICA COLL…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIV…LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationLONG BEACH STATE FOUN…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIV…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIV…LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $32,500 · EducationLOS ANGELES CITY COLL…MT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · Education+8 more: $90,000 · Education+8 moreNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $400,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERME…FILMAID INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 · OtherFILMAID INTERNATIONAL…THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $50,000 · OtherTHE REPORTERS COMMITT…NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL HISPANIC MED…Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $50,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sist…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $37,500 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIF…THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · OtherCOMPTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $20,000 · OtherST ELMO VILLAGE: $20,000 · OtherCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherCAL STATE FULLERTON P…FILM2FUTURE: $20,000 · OtherInner-City Filmmakers: $20,000 · OtherTHE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $95,000 · Other+8 moreINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC: $100,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $30,000 · InternationalWomens Voices Now Inc: $10,000 · InternationalPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $50,000 · Public BenefitMILITARY VETERANS IN JOURNALISM INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitLOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY BELONGS: $20,000 · Human ServicesMANIFESTWORKS: $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,127,000Education$553,000Civil Rights$400,000Other$545,000International$140,000Public Benefit$60,000Human Services$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $230,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $85,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMERA NEWS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST ELMO VILLAGE: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetINQUIREFIRST: $20,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTREETLIGHTS: $12,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutlast Arts And Education: $12,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCERRITOS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMOCKINGBIRD INCUBATOR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMILITARY VETERANS IN JOURNALISM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUrban Scholar Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGlendale College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMURALISM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWomens Voices Now Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

Hollywood Foreign Pre…Hollywood Foreign Pre…California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Weingart FoundationThe Ford FoundationSempra FoundationThe J Paul Getty TrustAcademy FoundationCalifornia HumanitiesThe Ahmanson Foundati…
Hollywood Foreign Press AssociationCA101.4× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hollywood Foreign Press Association · Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Academy Foundation · California Humanities · The Ahmanson 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 Golden Globe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden Globe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Golden Globe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Golden Globe Foundation 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 80 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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