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International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees
Motion picture studio mechanics local 476 (local), has a stated purpose to organize all workers for their moral, economic & social advancement.
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.
The 3 grants below total $121,180 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $254,055 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $132,875 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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $101,180 |
| INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES | $10,000 |
| OPERATION WARM | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- I4Independent 476 Scholarship Society3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · 58% of their budget
- IPILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP2× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +6%
- OWOperation Warm Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- SLSTAGEHANDS LOCAL TWO JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICE TRAINING FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue ×18
- IAINTL ALLIANCE THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES MOVING PICTURE MACH OPERATORS/THE USA UNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +118%
- RFRICHARD F WALSHALFRED W DITOLLA HAROLD P SPIVAK FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue -11%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Independent 476 Scholarship Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STAGEHANDS LOCAL TWO JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICE TRAINING FUND ↗
- Who funds Independent 476 Scholarship Society ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds INTL ALLIANCE THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES MOVING PICTURE MACH OPERATORS/THE USA UN ↗
- Who funds INT'L ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES M P T A & A ↗
- Who funds RICHARD F WALSHALFRED W DITOLLA HAROLD P SPIVAK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILMSCAPE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINECARES FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees 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.
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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