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Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.8M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION WARM INC: $5k → 10%Saratoga County Economic Oppo: $10k → 7%feedmore foundtaion of wester: $10k → 13%NORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS: $20k → 20%NORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS: $20k → 20%NORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS: $20k → 20%NORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS: $10k → 20%Greenpoint YMCA: $10k → 20%NORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS: $10k → 20%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 7 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$15M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+29%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureMembership BenefitOther
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

  • BF
    BENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 IATSE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15M · revenue +61% · 89% of their budget
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    3× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +72%
  • NB
    NORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • OD
    OTHER DONATIONS UNDER 5000
    one grant, 2019 · $61k
  • NB
    NORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • LC
    LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $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
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

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

Employment
3
Art of Brooklyn Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
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.

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6
Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York Inc

The association is a labor union whose members are active and retired police officers of the nypd (new york city police department).

Employment
7
Food Bank Association of New York State

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

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,…

Human Services
9
Ny Community Fridge Corp

Using the power of volunteers and community partnerships to expand dignified access to food in the heart of disadvantaged communities.

Food & Nutrition
10
Food 1ST Foundation

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Food Connect Co

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 IATSE: $14,865,886 · EmploymentBENEFIT FUND OF LOCAL 52 IATSEAll DONATIONS 5000 and belo: $216,269 · OtherOTHER DONATIONS UNDER 5000: $61,049 · OtherNORTH BROOKLYN ANGELS: $20,000 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $12,000 · Other+3 more: $28,000 · OtherNORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS: $80,000 · Human ServicesLIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK STATE YMCA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $5,181 · Human ServicesTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $110,000 · Membership BenefitBEHIND THE SCENES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPhilabundance: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionThe Marty Lyons Foundation Inc: $18,075 · Health
Employment$14,865,886Other$337,318Human Services$115,181Membership Benefit$110,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$18,075

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

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
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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Motion Picture Studio Mech L52 IATSE. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 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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