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Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE

The attainment and maintenance of fair wage rates, proper working conditions for its members and the employment of competent persons in working places under its jurisdiction.

$6.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,100,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$56M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$6.2M25%
FY20234$4.6M25%
FY20225$4.4M40%
FY20213$67k0%
FY20209$142k89%
FY20195$119kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Employment$15MPhilanthropy$277kFood & Nutrition$110kHuman Services$75kMembership Benefit$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kArts & Culture$30kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($307k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBenefit Fund of Local 52 Iatse: $14,865,886 over 3y, 89% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Brooklyn Coalition of Neighbors Helping Neighbors: $80,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetBehind the Scenes Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetThe Marty Lyons Foundation Inc: $18,075 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNew York Women in Film & Television Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLifeworks Community Action Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York State YMCA Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhilabundance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeedmore Wny Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of the Moving Image: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPA Film Industry Association: $8,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $5,181 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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.

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About Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE

How much does Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE give?
Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE reported 10 grants totaling $6,177,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (96%), Philanthropy (2%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
Who are Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Benefit Fund of Local 52 Iatse ($15M), The Actors' Fund of America ($110k), North Brooklyn Coalition of Neighbors Helping Neighbors ($80k).
Does Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE based?
Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE is based in NY.

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 18 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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