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Singh Singh Film Fund Dba Jaya Media Fund at a glance

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Singh Singh Film Fund Dba Jaya Media Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$909kCivil Rights$240kInternational$130kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$20k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES$50,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$35,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OUR CHILDRENS EARTH FOUNDATION: $130k → 9%COACH2EDIFY FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ILLUMINE SERVICE FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%DEMOCRACY NOW: $50k → 17%CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES: $50k → 20%UTAH FILM CENTER: $35k → 8%THE FILM COLABORATIVE: $150k → 14%ILLUMINE SERVICE FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES: $50k → 20%UTAH FILM CENTER: $105k → 8%ILLUMINE SERVICE FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES: $50k → 20%UTAH FILM CENTER: $100k → 8%CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES: $50k → 20%UTAH FILM CENTER: $25k → 8%CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES: $50k → 20%RELEVE INC: $40k → 8%CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES: $50k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 4 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$390k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-20%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • CE
    CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +6%
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $265k · revenue +54%
  • ILLUMINE SERVICE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $240k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +201%
  • OC
    Our Childrens Earth Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $130k · revenue -87%
  • DN
    DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -4%
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
Reel Earth Films

Reel Earth Films promotes wildlife conservation by creating films that nurture the human connection to nature, spread awareness about life-threatening challenges facing species worldwide, and advance environmental activism and research.

Arts & Culture
2
WorkingFilms Inc

Recognizing the power of film to inspire, Working Films positions documentaries to increase civic engagement and shift culture at the local, state, and national level.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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4
San Francisco Green Film Festival

San Francisco Green Film Festival's (SFGFF) mission is to educate and connect communities through forward thinking programs of environmental films, dialogues, and action opportunities.

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5
Global Peace Film Festival Inc

Film festival and other cultural and arts activities for educational purposes of encouraging world peace.

Arts & Culture
6
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop

Bringing people together to broaden the understanding and celebrate the power of independent film through cinema and the Sedona experience.

Arts & Culture
7
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
8
Athens Film Arts Institute Inc Dba Cine

Cine enriches the quality of life in Athens, GA and the surrounding region by presenting film and arts that inspire, educate and sustainably build community.

Arts & Culture
9
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
10
American Documentary Inc

A national non-profit media arts organization, american documentary strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. we collaborate with passionate filmmakers to amplify their voices, nuture the…

Arts & Culture
11
Southern Oregon Film Society Ashland Independent Film Festival

To celebrate the diversity of human experience through the art of independent film: enriching, educating, and inspiring audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
12
The Filmmaker Fund
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicken & Egg Films Inc; the most unlike its peers is Releve Inc. 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INCUTAH FILM CENTER: $265,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $239,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUNDTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRELEVE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureILLUMINE SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 · Civil RightsILLUMINE SERVICE F…Our Childrens Earth Foundation: $130,000 · EnvironmentOur Childr…COACH2EDIFY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$1,044,000Civil Rights$240,000Environment$130,000Other$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $300,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $265,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetILLUMINE SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $239,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOur Childrens Earth Foundation: $130,000 over 1y, 15% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Singh Singh Film Fund Dba Jaya Media Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Singh Singh Film Fund Dba Jaya Media Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Singh Singh Film Fund Dba Jaya Media Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Singh Singh Film Fund Dba Jaya Media Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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-PF 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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