New York · Private foundation
Perspective Media Initiatives Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 92
- Grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 57
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Perspective Media Initiatives Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 51 | $7.8M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $7.6M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $4.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women Make Movies Inc | $1,742,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Doc Society Inc | $1,440,000 | 3 | 34% |
| WorkingFilms Inc | $1,110,000 | 3 | 33% |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $1,052,033 | 3 | 4% |
| Accelerate Change Inc | $1,000,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Potential Energy Coalition Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Firelight Media Inc | $911,000 | 3 | 4% |
| American University | $827,593 | 2 | 0% |
| Forward Impact | $705,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | $625,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Perspective Media Initiatives Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Chicken & Egg Films Inc · The Ford Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Academy Foundation · Catapult Film Fund · Sundance Institute · Cinereach Ltd · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Inmaat Foundation · Jonathan Logan Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Harnisch Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Perspective Media Initiatives Inc
- How much does Perspective Media Initiatives Inc give?
- Perspective Media Initiatives Inc reported 92 grants totaling $8,013,815 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 57 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Perspective Media Initiatives Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (66%), Civil Rights (7%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Perspective Media Initiatives Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Women Make Movies Inc ($1.7M), Doc Society Inc ($1.4M), WorkingFilms Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Perspective Media Initiatives Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Perspective Media Initiatives Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Perspective Media Initiatives Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chicken & Egg Films Inc, The Ford Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Perspective Media Initiatives Inc based?
- Perspective Media Initiatives Inc is based in NY.
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