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Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

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

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$7.6MEmployment$542kPhilanthropy$300kCommunity Improvement$205kHuman Services$184kCivil Rights$60kEducation$50kYouth Development$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $1,763,119, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,890,742 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $127,623 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $191k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$631M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAG-AFTRA FOUNDATION$1,506,919
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER$48,500
NAHJ ASSOCIATION$33,000
THE WRAP NEWS INC$25,000
WHAT'S TRENDING INC$12,500
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$12,000
PRIDE LIVE INC$10,000
ILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE$10,000
SERIESFEST$10,000
ICG GUILD SCHOLARSHIP AND PRESERVATION FUND INC$10,000
WOMEN IN FILM$10,000
GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC$10,000
NEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES$8,500
CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO$8,500
RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATION$8,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOTION PICTURE & TV FUND: $21k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TV FUND: $21k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TV FUND: $11k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
LA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 41 repeat orgs$369k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
30

Total granted

$8.6M
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+10%

Still filing today

85%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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

  • SA
    SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +78%
  • CO
    COMMISSION ON ELIMINATING HARASSMENT AND ADVANCING EQUALITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +11%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $134k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • FT
    FREE THE WORK
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0% · 31% of their budget
  • UR
    UMG RECORDINGS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CT
    CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +33%
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
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
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
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
4
National Association of Broadcasters

National association of broadcasters (nab) advances the interest of radio and television broadcasters in federal government, industry and public affairs; improves the quality of broadcasting, and encourages technological innovation and…

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5
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers

The amptp negotiates industry-wide collective bargaining agreements on behalf of motion picture and television producers.

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6
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

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7
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Inc

To be the preeminent organization that recognizes, encourages and promotes excellence in the television, cable and related industries through education and the bestowing of the emmy award to industry professionals who exemplify that…

Community Improvement
8
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

To recognize and uphold excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences, inspire imagination, and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures.

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9
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
10
Independent Film Alliance F/K/a Stage 18
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11
International Intellectual Property Alliance

A coalition of tax-exempt trade associations representing producers and publishers of creative content working to improve international protection and enforcement of copyrighted materials and open up foreign markets closed by piracy and…

Community Improvement
12
Media Coalition Inc

The organization is an association that defends the first amendment right to produce and distribute mainstream content; and protects the american public's first amendment right to have access to the broadest possible range of information,…

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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 Mitchell Kapor Foundation. 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

66 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. 66 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/66
Grantees still filing
49/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $6,315,868 · Arts & CultureSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND+19 more: $590,450 · Arts & Culture+19 moreVARIETY MEDIA LLC: $188,500 · OtherVARIETY MED…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC JOURNALISTS INC: $55,000 · OtherNATIONAL AS…SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS SIGMA DELTA CHI: $43,500 · OtherASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COMMERCIAL PRODUCERS INC: $42,500 · OtherPRIDE LIVE INC: $40,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $36,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $36,000 · OtherNational Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association: $35,000 · OtherTHE WRAP NEWS INC: $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC JOURNALISTS: $33,000 · OtherMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $52,291 · OtherMOTION PICT…+27 more: $319,607 · Other+27 moreCOMMISSION ON ELIMINATING HARASSMENT AND ADVANCING EQUALITY: $400,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMISSIO…MITCHELL KAPOR FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyMITCHELL …+1 more: $16,500 · PhilanthropyFREE THE WORK: $70,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $27,500 · Community ImprovementCONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS PRODUCTION COALITION INC: $18,400 · Community Improvement+2 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $112,800 · Membership BenefitEntertainment Industry College Outreach Program: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIAMOND IN THE RAW: $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentInternational Cinematographers Guild Scholarship and Preservation Fund Inc: $38,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC: $10,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EducationNATIONAL HISPANIC FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$6,906,318Other$916,898Philanthropy$716,500Community Improvement$175,900Membership Benefit$112,800Youth Development$74,000Education$59,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $6,315,868 over 9y, 23% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ELIMINATING HARASSMENT AND ADVANCING EQUALITY: $400,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetMITCHELL KAPOR FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS: $133,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $112,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $97,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $77,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFREE THE WORK: $70,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC JOURNALISTS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNEWFILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES: $53,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $52,291 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEntertainment Industry College Outreach Program: $45,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM: $43,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS SIGMA DELTA CHI: $43,500 over 5y, 60% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COMMERCIAL PRODUCERS INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRIDE LIVE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetInternational Cinematographers Guild Scholarship and Preservation Fund Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR AFL-CIO: $36,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association: $35,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetILLINOIS PRODUCTION ALLIANCE NFP: $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetDIAMOND IN THE RAW: $29,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE BLACKHOUSE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $27,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSERIESFEST: $27,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES INC: $20,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION: $19,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PRODUCTION COALITION INC: $18,400 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTHE INNER CIRCLE OF NEW YORK POLITICAL JOURNALISTS INC D/B/A INNER CIRCLE: $16,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $16,350 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUDIO PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION: $15,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRadio & Television News Directors Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAFL-CIO TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRADIO TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,900 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6,500 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.

Hollywood Foreign Pre…AARPAcademy FoundationJohn S and James L Kn…The Ford FoundationDow Jones News Fund I…Motion Picture Associ…Pledgeling FoundationTegna Foundation IncCalifornia Community …Golden Globe Foundati…Hollywood Foreign Pre…
Hollywood Foreign Press AssociationCA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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