· Private foundation
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FILM INDEPENDENT INC | $224,920 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $145,000 |
| FILMAID INTERNATIONAL INC | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION | $86,500 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION | $85,300 |
| CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS | $72,500 |
| LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Sundance Institute7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +1%- TFTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.1M · revenue +4%
FILM INDEPENDENT7× · 2017–2024 · $871k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LAone grant, 2021 · $150k
- ICINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVEone grant, 2021 · $100k
- LVLA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $95k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.
Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camera News Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barcid Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
94 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. 94 of the 124 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds THE FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Inner-City Filmmakers ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds OUTFEST ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds STORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREETLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL MINDS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hollywood Foreign Press Association · Golden Globe Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Academy Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Humanities · Perenchio Foundation · The Ford Foundation
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 Charitable Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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