How much does Motion Picture Association Inc give?

Motion Picture Association Inc reported 55 itemized grants totaling $3,522,958, out of $3,621,975 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Motion Picture Association Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Public Benefit (18%), Community Improvement (9%).

Who are Motion Picture Association Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Carnegie Mellon University ($6.5M), The Copyright Alliance ($3.7M), George Mason University Foundation Inc ($1.3M).

Does Motion Picture Association Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Motion Picture Association Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ncta - the Internet & Television Association, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Mywirelessorg.

Where is Motion Picture Association Inc based?

Motion Picture Association Inc is based in CA.

Motion Picture Association Inc

Motion Picture Association Inc at a glance

· Public charity

Motion Picture Association Inc

The motion picture association (mpa, inc.) serves as the voice and advocate of the american motion picture, home video and television industries.

$3.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$750k

Largest

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.

Education$12MPublic Benefit$4.5MCommunity Improvement$2.2MSocial Science$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$1.3MEmployment$976kInternational$769kOther$0

02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 55 grants below total $3,522,958, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,621,975 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $99,017 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

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k36 grants · $624k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
$250k+3 grants · $1.4M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$67M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Carnegie Mellon University	$750,000
Copyright AllianceThe	$350,000
Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program	$272,500
George Mason University Foundation Inc	$215,000
International Intellectual Property Alliance	$200,000
Democratic Governors Association	$200,000
Republican Governors Association	$200,000
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal	$100,000
International Center for Law & Economics	$100,000
Senate Presidents' Forum	$76,500
The Third Way Foundation Inc	$75,000
Americans for Tax Reform	$75,000
Motion Picture & Tele Fund Foundation	$60,000
US Chamber Of Commerce	$60,000
Technology Policy Institute	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$24M · 73 repeat orgs$937k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$24M

$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

Still filing today

86%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CM
Carnegie Mellon University
7× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +15%
TC
THE COPYRIGHT ALLIANCE
7× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +125% · 85% of their budget
GM
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +37%

Funded once

TW
THIRD WAYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +170%
FT
FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -9%
TJ
THE JOBS FIRST COALITION INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +36%

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.

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit

Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit

American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Intellectual Property Law Association

The association was formed to maintain a high standard of professional ethics among its members and to aid in the institution of improvements in legal education and to provide information to the public in laws relating to patents,…

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The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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Ipc International Inc

Ipc is a global trade association dedicated to furthering the competitive excellence and financial success of its members, who are participants in the electronics industry. in pursuit of these objectives, ipc will devote resources to…

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Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Individual Freedom; the most unlike its peers is Technology Policy Institute. 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

99 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. 99 of the 116 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

98/99

Grantees still filing

75/99

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$14,102,422Education$5,693,722Community Improvement$1,225,500Civil Rights$1,217,000Arts & Culture$984,000Youth Development$885,000Public Benefit$815,000

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.

Ncta - the Internet & Television AssociationDC67.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Mywirelessorg · Association for Accessible Medicines · Edison Electric Institute Inc · United States Telecom Association · National Association of Broadcasters · NetChoice · The Business Roundtable Inc · American Petroleum Institute · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · Consumer Brands Association

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 Motion Picture Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Motion Picture Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home