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Hollywood Foreign Press Association

To establish favorable relations and cultural ties between foreign countries and the usa by the dissemination of information concerning the american culture and traditions as depicted in motion pictures and television through news media in various foreign countries.

$78M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$48M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$74MCivil Rights$2.9MEducation$2.7MInternational$2.7MFood & Nutrition$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$805kPublic Benefit$800kHealth$514kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 58 grants below total $53,191,107 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $77,663,475 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,472,368 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $709k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $51M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDEN GLOBE FOUNDATION$48,437,632
HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST$1,920,000
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS$400,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$290,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$175,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$170,475
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$150,000
LABORATORY FOR ICON & IDIOM INC - INDIECOLLECT$150,000
STORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC$105,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC$100,000
NEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGES$70,000
OUTFEST$55,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$52,000
CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE$50,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RESPECTABILITY: $20k → 8%MOTION PICTURE AND TV FUND: $105k → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $10k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TV FUND: $10k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC: $20k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC: $20k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $5k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $5k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK: $40k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK: $20k → 14%LOLLIPOP THEATRE NETWORK: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$34M · 102 repeat orgs$53M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

102 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
60

Total granted

$34M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+24%

Still filing today

93%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +1% · 100% of their budget
  • FILM INDEPENDENT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +85%
  • CT
    COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • Feeding America
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
  • IC
    INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +185%
  • JC
    JOURNALISTS CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $326k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
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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3
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
4
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
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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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
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
9
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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10
Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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11
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%56%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%5%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 56% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/179
the rest of the field
14%
12,280/89,247

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

175 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 175 of the 180 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
166/175
Grantees still filing
111/175
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOLDEN GLOBE FOUNDATION — $48,437,632 · Arts & CultureGOLDEN GLOBE FOUNDATIONFILM INDEPENDENT — $2,456,430 · Arts & Culture+55 more — $6,728,873 · Arts & Culture+55 moreHOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST — $15,254,000 · PhilanthropyHOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PR…+8 more — $336,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,130,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $522,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $265,950 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $260,000 · EducationLOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB — $215,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF GOETHE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $213,000 · Education+14 more — $491,600 · EducationTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS — $650,000 · OtherFILMAID INTERNATIONAL INC — $560,000 · OtherJOURNALISTS CARE FOUNDATION — $326,136 · OtherOUTFEST — $195,000 · OtherCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $505,000 · OtherINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC — $500,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $263,730 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $380,000 · Other+65 more — $2,416,526 · OtherCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $1,350,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $1,200,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $250,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $101,000 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC — $800,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $285,100 · InternationalTHE KAILASH SATYARTHI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $260,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $250,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $175,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $125,000 · InternationalAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · International+6 more — $170,000 · InternationalFeeding America — $1,000,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$57,622,935Philanthropy$15,590,000Education$3,097,550Other$5,796,392Civil Rights$2,901,000International$2,165,100Food & Nutrition$1,000,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOLDEN GLOBE FOUNDATION — $48,437,632 over 2y, 69% of budgetHOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST — $15,254,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $2,456,430 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $1,350,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC — $800,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE — $700,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC — $700,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS — $650,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLABORATORY FOR ICON AND IDIOM INC — $595,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetFILMAID INTERNATIONAL INC — $560,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $522,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $505,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC — $445,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $380,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY — $350,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FILM NOIR FOUNDATION — $299,784 over 4y, 34% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $285,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES — $268,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $265,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $263,730 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $260,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KAILASH SATYARTHI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $260,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSundance Institute — $225,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB — $215,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF GOETHE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $213,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP — $200,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetOUTFEST — $195,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $175,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $175,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICA LOS ANGELES FKA PEN CENTER USA WEST — $160,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOLLIPOP THEATER NETWORK INC — $120,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetFILM PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $118,690 over 2y, 18% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND — $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetECHO PARK FILM CENTER — $115,000 over 4y, 51% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hollywood Foreign Pre…Golden Globe Foundati…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationJohnny Carson Foundat…Academy FoundationPledgeling FoundationThe David Geffen Foun…The J Paul Getty Trust
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable TrustCA103.1× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust · Golden Globe Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Academy Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Hollywood Foreign Press Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
46report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hollywood Foreign Press Association?

Find your warmest path to Hollywood Foreign Press Association 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 180 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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