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Mamafilm Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$17kHealth$7kCivil Rights$2kCommunity Improvement$2kEnvironment$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Youth Development$250Philanthropy$50
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$511
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE$7,200
FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE$750
HARVESTER ARTS$511
ART HOUSE CONVERGENCE$500
FRACTURED ATLAS$326
THE TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE$300
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 (FY22–22, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WICHITA BIRTH JUSTICE SOCIETY: $250 → 16%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
MI
NY
PA
CA
DE
KS
DC
GA
TX
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 5 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$10k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+33%

Still filing today

60%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • VF
    VIDIOTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +282%
  • HA
    HARVESTER ARTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +101%
  • TF
    THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k

Funded once

  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +69%
  • DI
    DESTINATION INNOVATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +158%
  • NN
    NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -53%
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
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
2
The Conversationalist
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3
Moonshot Initiative Inc

Promote gender equity in the film & television industry

Arts & Culture
4
Inclusivity Media

We want to foster inclusion in film, television and digital media. Inclusivity Media wants to elevate unique voices within the industry and provide opportunities for filmmakers to create visual stories for all audiences. Inclusivity Media…

Arts & Culture
5
Womens Voices Now Inc

Use film to drive postive social change that advances girls and women's rights globally.

International
6
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
7
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

Transforming global storytelling by using data-driven research, education, and advocacy to mitigate bias, inspiring authentic portrayals in entertainment, advertising, and gaming that reflect the true diversity of the population.

Civil Rights
8
B-Word Worldwide Inc Bitch Media

To provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream and popular culture.

—
9
Women in Media Inc

Women In Media encourages gender balance in film and entertainment industries by providing networking, professional development, and advocacy for above and below the line women and all genders who love making movies with them.

Arts & Culture
10
Bravemaker

BraveMaker exists to elevate brave voices. Through the curation and creation of bold, meaningful films, we educate, entertain, and build community experiences that spark transformative conversations rooted in diversity, inclusion, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Kashif Incubator Inc

Kashif designs original pathways into filmmaking through a new practice in equity-access, which dismantles historic barriers placed on storytellers and fosters new approaches driven by inclusivity and co-creation. We are place-based…

Arts & Culture
12
Art of Brooklyn Festival

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; the most unlike its peers is Kansas Birth Justice 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE: $7,200 · Arts & CultureENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGEVIDIOTS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Arts & CultureVIDIOTS FOUNDATIONHARVESTER ARTS: $2,261 · Arts & CultureHARVESTER ARTS+5 more: $1,476 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE INC: $1,500 · OtherTHE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEM…NATIONAL BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJE: $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL BLACK WOMEN'S HE…No More Secrets-Mind Body Spirit: $1,000 · OtherNo More Secrets-Mind Body…KMUW: $700 · OtherKMUWART HOUSE CONVERGENCE: $500 · OtherART HOUSE CONVERGENCEROXIE: $500 · OtherROXIEBROWN GIRLS DOC MAFIA (BGDM): $250 · OtherPROJECT UNLOADED INC: $500 · OtherPROJECT UNLOADED INCGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SEDGWICK COUNTY: $250 · OtherKansas Birth Justice Society: $250 · Other+1 more: $50 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,200 · Civil Rights+1 more: $50 · Civil RightsDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $1,500 · Community ImprovementTrust Women Foundation Inc: $1,400 · HealthENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $1,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$15,437Other$6,500Civil Rights$2,250Community Improvement$1,500Health$1,400Philanthropy$1,050Environment$1,000

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 budgetENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE: $7,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIDIOTS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARVESTER ARTS: $2,261 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $326 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tiny News Collective Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOM FILM FEST INC: $300 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SEDGWICK COUNTY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLACK TV & FILM COLLECTIVE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKansas Birth Justice Society: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Wichita FoundationNew Venture FundCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Wichita FoundationKS13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wichita Foundation · New Venture Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mamafilm Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mamafilm Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mamafilm Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mamafilm Inc 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 26 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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