· Public charity
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Found
The sag-aftra foundation (the "foundation") provides vital assistance and educational programming to the professionals of sag-aftra while serving the public at large through its signature children's literacy program.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $350,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE | $150,000 |
| MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND | $25,000 |
| GHETTO FILM SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE VITA PROGRAM OF AEA AND SAG-AFTRA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +80%
- MPMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND8× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +77%
- TGTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- LWLULA WASHINGTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +32%
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.
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.
To recognize and uphold excellence in the motion picture arts and sciences, inspire imagination, and connect the world through the medium of motion pictures.
The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
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…
The american cinematheque believes that cinema is a communal experience with the power to entertain, enlighten and inspire. we build a diverse and engaged film community through immersive film curation, conversation, and presentation. we…
The goal of the academy is to prepare students for acting careers in theatre, television and film and to provide a practical, post-secondary education that emphasizes the skills needed by an actor in today's competitive environment.
Sag-aftra members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists.
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.
How this is measured
8 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LULA WASHINGTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Found 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 Found. Bigger dots raise more.