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Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$7.8MEducation$4.9MScience & Tech$630kEmployment$429kYouth Development$348kHuman Services$301kCivil Rights$255kInternational$210kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $405k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$60,000
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE$60,000
MT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$55,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RESPECTABILITY: $20k → 6%RESPECTABILITY: $20k → 6%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $54k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $48k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $30k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $15k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $15k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $15k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 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

IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
NE
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 77 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
40

Total granted

$13M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+3%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Sundance Institute
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
  • TF
    THE FILM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.1M · revenue +4%
  • FILM INDEPENDENT
    7× · 2017–2024 · $871k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LA
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • LV
    LA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $95k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
3
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
4
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
5
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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6
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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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11
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
12
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camera News Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

94 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. 94 of the 124 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/94
Grantees still filing
57/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sundance Institute: $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM FOUNDATION INCFILM INDEPENDENT: $870,840 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $575,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTSTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $390,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE+35 more: $1,947,900 · Arts & Culture+35 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $630,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY L…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $590,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY N…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $551,100 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY L…UCLA FOUNDATION: $520,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $330,000 · EducationMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDA…SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $275,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOLTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $220,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV…New York University: $190,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $170,000 · Education+10 more: $515,000 · Education+10 moreUCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER FILM AND TV: $685,000 · OtherUCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER FILM…LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE: $218,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGESANTA MONICA COLLEGE: $200,000 · OtherSANTA MONICA COLLEGEOUTFEST: $200,000 · OtherOUTFESTCAL STATE DOMINGUEZ HILLS: $186,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $173,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LA: $150,000 · Other+47 more: $1,906,466 · Other+47 moreCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $605,500 · PhilanthropyPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,550 · PhilanthropyInner-City Filmmakers: $260,000 · EmploymentSTREETLIGHTS: $115,000 · EmploymentMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $201,165 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $100,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY BELONGS: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $200,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$5,933,740Education$3,991,100Other$3,718,966Philanthropy$658,050Employment$375,000Human Services$341,165Civil Rights$205,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSundance Institute: $1,100,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FILM FOUNDATION INC: $1,050,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $870,840 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $630,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $605,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $590,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $575,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $551,100 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $520,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $390,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $275,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInner-City Filmmakers: $260,000 over 7y, 63% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $220,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $201,165 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOUTFEST: $200,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNew York University: $190,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $173,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $150,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOALITION OF ASIAN PACIFICS IN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC: $120,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSTREETLIGHTS: $115,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM: $110,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION: $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetPEN AMERICA LOS ANGELES FKA PEN CENTER USA WEST: $90,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetNEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES: $76,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAUSTRALIANS IN FILM FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 73% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC: $63,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetECHO PARK FILM CENTER: $60,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetVeterans in Media & Entertainment: $54,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSHAREWELL: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FILM NOIR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION ↗
  • Who funds FILMAID INTERNATIONAL INC ↗

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…Golden Globe Foundati…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Ralph M Parsons F…Academy FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…Johnny Carson Foundat…Weingart FoundationCalifornia HumanitiesPerenchio FoundationThe Ford Foundation
Hollywood Foreign Press AssociationCA103.1× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hollywood Foreign Press Association · 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

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 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust 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 124 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-PF 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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