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Studio Transportation Drivers Union Local 399 at a glance

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Studio Transportation Drivers Union Local 399

To unite all workers and to secure improved wages, hours, working conditions, & other economic advantages through organization, negotiations, and collective bargaining.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$198kCommunity Improvement$66kEmployment$26kEducation$21kCrime & Legal$10kMembership Benefit$5kCivil Rights$5kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $67,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $83,132 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,432 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Entertainment Union Coalition$20,000
FLICS$15,000
Casting Society of America$12,500
Screen Actors Guild Awards$8,750
IngleDodd Media$5,950
Commission on Eliminating Har$5,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MOTION PICTURE TELEVISION FUND: $7k → 14%JRHMSF: $21k → 14%TEAMSTERS LGBTQCAUCUS: $5k → 11%Entertainment Union Coalition: $20k → 14%CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $13k → 14%Casting Society of America: $13k → 14%CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%IngleDodd Media: $6k → 14%INGLEDODD MEDIA: $6k → 14%JC 42 CHARITY FUNDRAISER: $10k → 14%TEAMSTERS LOCAL 174: $5k → 14%COMMISSION ON ELIMINATION OF HARASS: $10k → 14%Commission on Eliminating Har: $6k → 14%LA FED: $11k → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LA: $5k → 14%FLICS: $15k → 14%ENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION: $20k → 14%ENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION: $20k → 14%ENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION: $20k → 14%Screen Actors Guild Awards: $9k → 14%FLICS: $15k → 14%SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS: $6k → 14%FLICS: $15k → 14%THE ACTORS FUND: $5k → 14%FLICS: $10k → 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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 4 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +219% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$187k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+219%
+19%

Still filing today

25%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementMembership BenefitArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • EU
    ENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $80k
  • CS
    CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +219%
  • F
    FLICS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $40k

Funded once

  • J
    JRHMSF
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • J4
    JC 42 CHARITY FUNDRAISER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION: $80,000 · OtherENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITIONFLICS: $40,000 · OtherFLICSJRHMSF: $21,000 · OtherJRHMSFENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION GENERAL FUND: $20,000 · OtherENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION GENERAL FUNDINGLEDODD MEDIA: $11,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,400 · OtherJC 42 CHARITY FUNDRAISER: $10,250 · OtherCOMMISSION ON ELIMINATION OF HARASS: $10,000 · OtherIASTE LOCAL 44: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $32,250 · Other+6 moreCASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $55,000 · Community ImprovementCASTING SOCIETY OF AMER…Film Liaisons in California Statewide: $15,000 · Community ImprovementFilm Liaisons in Califo…SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $8,750 · Arts & CultureCOMMISSION ON ELIMINATING HARASSMENT AND ADVANCING EQUALITY: $5,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $5,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$246,800Community Improvement$70,000Arts & Culture$8,750Philanthropy$5,500Membership Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $55,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION GENERAL FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFilm Liaisons in California Statewide: $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $8,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ELIMINATING HARASSMENT AND ADVANCING EQUALITY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEAMSTERS NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT UNION COALITION GENERAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Film Liaisons in California Statewide ↗
  • Who funds SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND ↗
  • Who funds COMMISSION ON ELIMINATING HARASSMENT AND ADVANCING EQUALITY ↗
  • Who funds TEAMSTERS NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Screen Actors Guild-A…
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio ArtistsCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

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 Studio Transportation Drivers Union Local 399 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Studio Transportation Drivers Union Local 399. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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