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Investigative Studios Inc

Primary Exempt Purpose: Investigative Studios is an independent nonprofit committed to making positive social impact through documentary filmmaking in the public interest. Trustworthy information is imperative to a functioning democracy. Studios champions the quality of craft and invests in the documentary filmmaking community by…

$704k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$615,700
Largest grant, FY2025
$615,700
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$191k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cam Bay Productions Inc$615,7001n/a
The Champion City LLC$88,6831n/a

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About Investigative Studios Inc

How much does Investigative Studios Inc give?
Investigative Studios Inc reported 2 grants totaling $704,383 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Investigative Studios Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Investigative Studios Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Cam Bay Productions Inc ($616k), The Champion City LLC ($89k).
Where is Investigative Studios Inc based?
Investigative Studios Inc is based in CA.

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 2 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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