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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.

$254k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$101k
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.

Human Services$121kEmployment$89kEducation$57kArts & Culture$37kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $121,180, the rows itemized in this filing. The $254,055 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $132,875 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$101,180
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES$10,000
OPERATION WARM$10,000
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION WARM: $10k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $5k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $5k → 6%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.
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 3 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$95k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Membership BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • I4
    Independent 476 Scholarship Society
    3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · 58% of their budget
  • IP
    ILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP
    2× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • OW
    Operation Warm Inc
    3× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • SL
    STAGEHANDS LOCAL TWO JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICE TRAINING FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue ×18
  • IA
    INTL ALLIANCE THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES MOVING PICTURE MACH OPERATORS/THE USA UNgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +118%
  • RF
    RICHARD F WALSHALFRED W DITOLLA HAROLD P SPIVAK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue -11%
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
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. to achieve this purpose, the local's officers and business manager negotiate collective…

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2
League of Chicago Theatres

The league of chicago theatres is an alliance of theatres, which leverages its collective strength to support, promote and advocate for chicago's theatre industry. through the organization's work, its ensure that theatre continues to…

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3
Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago

Cinema/Chicago, the non-profit 501(c)(3) presenting organization of the Chicago International Film Festival, enriches the community through year-round programming devoted to international and independent cinema. We strengthen communication…

Arts & Culture
4
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union Local 122

The organization is a dispatch office for union members who are stage hands working in the San Diego area. The organization represents union members in the collective bargaining process with employers. Members pay dues plus a percentage of…

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5
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 22 - Welfare Fund

Provide health and welfare benefits for eligible employees working in covered employment under the jurisdiction of theatrical stage employees, local 22 and local 772.

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6
Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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7
Chicago Filmmakers

To serve independent film and digital video artists by supporting the creation and dissemination of new media arts works, and to serve Chicago audiences by screening artistically innovative, socially relevant, and diverse films and videos.

Arts & Culture
8
Intl Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees Local 478

To promote & advance the principles of trade unionism: improve wages & hours of work; increase job security; make better working conditions; increase industry stability; organize the unorganized: educate its membership; & negotiate…

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9
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival

Creating innovative puppetry performances utilizing musical, literary, and puppetry traditions.

Arts & Culture
10
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 51

Labor organization

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11
League of Chicago Theatres Foundation

League of chicago theatres foundation supports the work of league of chicago theatres through grantmaking and fundraising.

Arts & Culture
12
Illinois Theatre Association

We promote theatre in Illinois. Our members are students, educators, community & professional theaters, actors & producers all joined together to support the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $101,180 · Membership BenefitTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICAIndependent 476 Scholarship Society: $50,000 · OtherIndependent 476 Scholarship Socie…INTL ALLIANCE THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES MOVING PICTURE MACH OPERATORS/THE USA UN: $14,000 · OtherINTL ALLIANCE THEATRICAL STAGE EM…INT'L ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES M P T A & A: $10,000 · OtherINT'L ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAG…RICHARD F WALSHALFRED W DITOLLA HAROLD P SPIVAK FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherRICHARD F WALSHALFRED W DITOLLA H…FILMSCAPE: $6,000 · OtherFILMSCAPECINECARES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCINECARES FOUNDATIONSTAGEHANDS LOCAL TWO JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICE TRAINING FUND: $60,000 · EducationSTAGEHANDS LOCAL TWO …ILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP: $25,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS …Operation Warm Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesFILMSCAPE CHICAGO INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Membership Benefit$101,180Other$92,000Education$60,000Community Improvement$25,000Human Services$20,000Arts & Culture$6,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $101,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGEHANDS LOCAL TWO JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICE TRAINING FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetIndependent 476 Scholarship Society: $50,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTL ALLIANCE THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES MOVING PICTURE MACH OPERATORS/THE USA UN: $14,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetINT'L ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES M P T A & A: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD F WALSHALFRED W DITOLLA HAROLD P SPIVAK FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFILMSCAPE CHICAGO INC: $6,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCINECARES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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