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Motion Picture Bookers Club Foundation
Support charitable organizations that are generally sponsored and promoted by the motion picture and entertainment industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $73,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $79,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS | $50,000 |
| RISING GROUND | $8,500 |
| VARIETY OF NEW YORK | $7,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC5× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +15%
- RGRISING GROUND INC4× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +119%
- VCVariety-The Children's Charity of New York Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +545% · 80% of their budget
Funded once
- VTVariety - the Childrens Charity Internationalone grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue -33%
- VTVARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +9%
- VBVARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF QUEENS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To deliver life-changing programs that give Coachella Valley children a better future.
Variety empowers over 1,650 children with physical and developmental disabilities (also referred to as children with special needs) through programs that highlight ability rather than disability. our holistic approach includes giving…
Variety provides children with disabilities in selected counties in Pennsylvania and West Virginia with unique programs, experiences and equipment so they may live life to the fullest.
Providing vital support and essential services to children with special needs in our community.
The organization works to improve the quality of life for children with disabilities by providing the equipment not covered by insurance and experiences needed to reach their highest potential.
Variety - the children's charity of iowa is dedicated to improving the lives of children who are at risk, underprivileged, critically ill, or living with special needs.
Variety the children's charity of the national capital region ("variety dc", organization") was incorporated in 2015, and is located in the district of columbia. the organization's principal purpose is to serve children who are less…
Variety is committed to promoting and protecting the health and well-being of children across texas.
Act as the national cooperative for all variety chapters in the united states through a regional network of tents and representatives. it shall help coordinate resources, develop programs and cooperative fundraising strategies.…
Variety of eastern tennessee's primary exempt purpose is to provide funding and services for programs that strive to improve the quality of life for underpriviledged, physically and mentally challenged, ill, abused, neglected and abandoned…
To build independence and self-confidence in children and youth with disabilities by engaging them in vocational, recreational, social, and educational enrichment activities, while connecting families to resources. variety serves children…
Variety child learning center (vclc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides programs and services that meet the individual educational, therapeutic, and social-emotional needs of children with and without disabilities.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25 and the most unlike its peers is Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RISING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Variety - the Childrens Charity International ↗
- Who funds Variety-The Children's Charity of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25 ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF QUEENS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Motion Picture Bookers Club Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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