· Public charity
The Better Angels Society Inc
The better angels society supports outstanding american history documentaries to inspire lifelong learning, promote civic engagement, and encourage civil discourse.the organization advances this mission by raising funds to support individual documentary films focused on u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $9,131,941 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,516,941 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $385,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $393k
- $250k+1 grant · $8.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC | $8,632,443 |
| LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $188,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $139,500 |
| WNET | $65,100 |
| NATIONAL HISTORY DAY | $40,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK FILM PROJECT INC | $32,500 |
| ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| DCDOX | $10,000 |
| HINDSIGHT FILM FESTIVAL | $9,398 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $83M · revenue +56%
WGBH Educational Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $905k · revenue +1%
PBS FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $431k · revenue +400%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
- CSCHOL SOO LEE DOCUMENTARY LLCone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SCSTORY CENTER FILMS LLCone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middleburg Film Festival and the most unlike its peers is Inside Out Media. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National History Day Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds TALLGRASS EDUCATIONAL FILMS CO JOSEPH WINSTON ↗
- Who funds THE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Ciesla Foundation ↗
- Who funds Inside Out Media ↗
- Who funds JEZEBEL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE REEL BLUES FEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Better Angels Society Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National History Day Inc — 13% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.