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Motion Picture Editors Guild at a glance

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Motion Picture Editors Guild

The organization is a labor union for motion picture editors.

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$237kHuman Services$213kYouth Development$48kMembership Benefit$34kEmployment$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $76,320, the rows itemized in this filing. The $91,320 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 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 · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$11,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS$25,000
MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS$13,000
CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY$11,500
MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND$10,000
MISC - UNDER 5000$9,320
ASIFA-HOLLYWOOD$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 (FY17–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION: $61k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION: $40k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $37k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $22k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION: $19k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION: $14k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $10k → 14%ASIFA-HOLLYWOOD: $8k → 14%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$477k · 5 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$477k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
-24%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • MP
    MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +77%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +13%
  • MP
    MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS
    5× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue -24%
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -32%
  • IA
    IATSE AFFILIATED PROPERTY CRAFTSPERSONS LOCAL 44
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +15%
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
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

To recognize and uphold excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences, inspire imagination, and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures.

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2
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
3
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Sag-aftra members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists.

Employment
4
American Society of Cinematographers

Encourage the free exchange of ideas about cinematography.

Arts & Culture
5
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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6
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
7
The British Academy of Film & Television Arts East Coast Inc

To provide a lively environment in which film and televison professionals in new york can meet and exchange information and ideas about their sister industries in the uk.

—
8
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers

The amptp negotiates industry-wide collective bargaining agreements on behalf of motion picture and television producers.

—
9
The American Film Institute

The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.

Arts & Culture
10
Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc Inc

Honor, review, recognize motion pictures

Recreation & Sports
11
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Inc

Enabling the technical framework and global professional community that makes motion pictures, television, and professional media through our global society of technologists, developers, and creatives by setting industry standards,…

Arts & Culture
12
Casting Society of America

The premier organization for casting directors in film, television, theatre, and commercials, casting society of america seeks to upload and honor the highest standards of professionalism in the casting field. activities include an annual…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Academy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Iatse Affiliated Property Craftspersons Local 44. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS INC: $148,500 · OtherAMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS INCMISC - UNDER 5000: $47,860 · OtherMISC - UNDER 5000CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY LEE ORLOFF: $22,500 · OtherCINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY LEE ORLOFF+1 more: $5,000 · OtherMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $212,900 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUNDASIFA-HOLLYWOOD: $7,500 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS: $45,462 · Community ImprovementMOTION PI…THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $33,900 · Membership BenefitACADEMY FOUNDATION: $12,800 · Arts & Culture
Other$223,860Human Services$220,400Community Improvement$45,462Membership Benefit$33,900Arts & Culture$12,800

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $212,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS INC: $148,500 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetMOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS: $45,462 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $33,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY LEE ORLOFF: $22,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $12,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIFA-HOLLYWOOD: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIATSE AFFILIATED PROPERTY CRAFTSPERSONS LOCAL 44: $5,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Motion Picture Editors Guild funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Motion Picture Editors Guild. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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, FY20–25
    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.

    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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