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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.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Arts & Culture$341kHealth$162kHuman Services$68kPhilanthropy$33kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $73,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $79,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,750 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$8,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS$50,000
RISING GROUND$8,500
VARIETY OF NEW YORK$7,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$7,500
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RISING GROUND: $11k → 9%RISING GROUND: $10k → 9%RISING GROUND: $10k → 9%RISING GROUND: $9k → 9%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$537k · 5 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$537k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-29%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +15%
  • RG
    RISING GROUND INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $39k · revenue +119%
  • VC
    Variety-The Children's Charity of New York Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +545% · 80% of their budget

Funded once

  • VT
    Variety - the Childrens Charity International
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue -33%
  • VT
    VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +17%
  • VB
    VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF QUEENS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -29%
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
Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis

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…

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2
Variety Childrens Charities of the Desert Tent 66

To deliver life-changing programs that give Coachella Valley children a better future.

Human Services
3
Variety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity

Providing vital support and essential services to children with special needs in our community.

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4
Variety the Childrens Charity of Illinois

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.

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5
Variety the Childrens Charity

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.

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6
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Complete Playground Inc

Complete playground is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing inclusive child, teen, and family development by bringing together neurodivergent and neurotypical children, teenagers, and their families in a shared environment of…

Recreation & Sports
9
Variety the Children's Charity of the Delaware Valley

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa

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.

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11
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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12
Central New York Ronald McDonald House

Housing and programs for sick children and thier families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $341,250 · HealthWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATIONVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA: $79,550 · HealthVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GARONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INCRISING GROUND INC: $39,000 · Human ServicesVariety - the Childrens Charity International: $37,150 · InternationalVariety-The Children's Charity of New York Inc: $32,500 · PhilanthropyVARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25: $21,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $7,500 · OtherVARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF QUEENS INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$465,800Human Services$39,000International$37,150Philanthropy$32,500Other$28,500Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $341,250 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA: $79,550 over 2y, 17% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRISING GROUND INC: $39,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVariety - the Childrens Charity International: $37,150 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVariety-The Children's Charity of New York Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 80% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TENT 25: $21,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF QUEENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Motion Picture Bookers Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Motion Picture Bookers Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Motion Picture Bookers Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Motion Picture Bookers Club Foundation 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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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