· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 | $3,100,000 |
| BENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 | $2,710,293 |
| BENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 | $221,223 |
| All DONATIONS 5000 and belo | $57,046 |
| Entertainment Community Fund | $50,000 |
| Greenpoint YMCA | $10,000 |
| NORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS | $10,000 |
| PA Film Industry Association | $8,000 |
| New York Women in Film & Tele | $6,000 |
| Marty Lyons Foundation | $5,038 |
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 (FY20–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +32% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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; $18k 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
- BFBENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 IATSE3× · 2022–2024 · $15M · revenue +61% · 89% of their budget
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA3× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +72%
- NBNORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ODOTHER DONATIONS UNDER 5000one grant, 2019 · $61k
- NBNORTH BROOKLYN ANGELSone grant, 2019 · $20k
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELSone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -25%
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.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
Sag-aftra members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists.
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…
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…
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.
The association is a labor union whose members are active and retired police officers of the nypd (new york city police department).
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.
Food 1st foundation helps to feed emergency service workers and neighbors who have limited access to food by partnering with restaurants throughout new york city in a way that will also revitalize the city's food and beverage industry.
At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Pa Film Industry Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 BENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 IATSE ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds BEHIND THE SCENES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Marty Lyons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE YMCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE ↗
- Who funds PA Film Industry Association ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm 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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Studio Mech L52 IATSE 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.