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Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
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- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,506,919
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $631M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $1.8M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $2.4M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $662k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $899k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $284k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $579k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $949k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $755k | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Found | $6,315,868 | 9 | 23% |
| Commission on Eliminating Harassment and Advancing Equality | $400,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Mitchell Kapor Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Variety Media LLC | $188,500 | 4 | n/a |
| National Association of Black Journalists | $133,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $112,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Musicares Foundation Inc | $97,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Asian American Journalists Association | $77,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Free the Work | $70,000 | 1 | 31% |
| National Association of Hispanic Journalists Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 75 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 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: Hollywood Foreign Press Association · AARP · Academy Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Dow Jones News Fund Inc · Motion Picture Association Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · Tegna Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Golden Globe Foundation · Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists with peer funders
About Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
- How much does Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists give?
- Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reported 21 itemized grants totaling $1,763,119, out of $1,890,742 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (84%), Employment (6%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Found ($6.3M), Commission on Eliminating Harassment and Advancing Equality ($400k), Mitchell Kapor Foundation ($300k).
- Does Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hollywood Foreign Press Association, AARP, Academy Foundation.
- Where is Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists based?
- Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is based in CA.