· Public charity
International Documentary Foundation Inc
We are dedicated to the vision of a world where documentary creators flourish.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $564k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEMETRIUS LLC | $1,480,000 |
| NICK MOLLE PRODUCTIONS INC | $585,968 |
| BULLER FILMS LLC | $390,114 |
| RONALD M BLATMAN INC | $343,735 |
| TEN THOUSAND X WISCHES LLC | $246,719 |
| COMPLEXLY LLC | $232,500 |
| SPECTROTECHNICS LLC | $213,900 |
| TERRACE FILMS LLC | $185,000 |
| UNAFF | $160,803 |
| ERA DOCUMENTARY LLC | $140,177 |
| C2C MEDIA LLC | $105,818 |
| ISKANDER FILMS INC | $102,300 |
| GRAHAM STREET PRODUCTIONS LLC | $102,221 |
| 237 THOMPSON STREET LLC | $99,385 |
| ARCHIVAL PRODUCERS ALLIANCE LLC | $96,155 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of International Documentary Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
194 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 162 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UUNAFF8× · 2017–2025 · $852k · revenue +91% · 98% of their budget
- JVJust Vision Inc2× · 2019–2021 · $85k · revenue +9%
- TGThe George Washington University2× · 2022–2023 · $70k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TMThe Mosaic Group Incone grant, 2018 · $601k
- TPTremolo Productionsone grant, 2017 · $570k
- CCCONMOTO CREATIVE COMPANY LLCone grant, 2024 · $466k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 490 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Sundance Institute · The Film Collaborative Inc · Utah Film Center · Redford Center Inc · The Ford Foundation · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · Firelight Media Inc · Threshold Foundation · Field of Vision Inc · Video Veracity Inc · Center for Asian American Media · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization International Documentary Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Documentary Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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