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Video Veracity Inc

Support and encourage the creation and distribution of independent educational documentary programming not traditionally supported by commercial financing, for regional, national, and international audiences via film festivals, broadcasts, cablecasts, streaming, and other means of distribution.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$103k
Largest
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$2.6MCivil Rights$9k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $571,796, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,175,992 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $604,196 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $361k
$49,841
Median grant
4
States reached
$526k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUTED FILM LLC$102,900
WAR ROOM DOCUMENTARY LLC$72,668
ROLEPLAY LLC$70,068
Natchez Film LLC$64,304
CLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC$51,081
DISCO SMILE PRODUCTIONS$49,980
SERENDIPITY FILMS$49,841
Broad and Orleans Productions LLC$29,400
RUDIMENTS LLC$26,225
Native Resonance Productions LLC$20,129
KINFOLK PARTNERS LLC$19,600
TUCKERGURL$9,800
SOLIDARITY LLC$5,800
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 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SERENDIPITY FILMS: $80k → 10%RISK MASTER LP: $294k → 14%TITLE 8 PRODUCTIONS LLC: $12k → 18%ROLEPLAY LLC: $70k → 20%Native Resonance Productions LLC: $20k → 13%KINFOLK PARTNERS LLC: $20k → 14%Smilestyle LLC: $29k → 19%Rudiments LLC: $31k → 23%SERENDIPITY FILMS: $61k → 10%DISCO SMILE PRODUCTIONS: $50k → 14%ROLEPLAY LLC: $62k → 20%My Ascension LLC: $14k → 19%RUDIMENTS LLC: $26k → 23%SERENDIPITY FILMS: $50k → 10%WAR ROOM DOCUMENTARY LLC: $73k → 14%ROLEPLAY LLC: $14k → 20%PATOIS NO INT HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL: $9k → 23%ROLEPLAY LLC: $10k → 20%GUSTO MOVING PICTURES LLC: $257k → 23%GUSTO MOVING PICTURES LLC: $168k → 23%Native Resonance Productions LLC: $13k → 20%GUSTO MOVING PICTURES LLC: $119k → 23%COMMUTED FILM LLC: $103k → 23%COMMUTED FILM LLC: $98k → 23%Natchez Film LLC: $69k → 23%Natchez Film LLC: $64k → 23%COMMUTED FILM LLC: $59k → 23%COMMUTED FILM LLC: $49k → 23%TUCKERGURL: $49k → 23%TUCKERGURL LLC: $44k → 23%Broad and Orleans Productions LLC: $29k → 23%INQUISITOR FILM LLC: $25k → 23%PATUCHA PRODUCTIONS: $12k → 23%TUCKERGURL: $10k → 23%THE WATER LITERACY FILM LLC: $10k → 23%THE WATER LITERACY FILM LLC: $10k → 23%LUNCH MONEY FILMS LLC: $98k → 23%CLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC: $51k → 23%CLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC: $50k → 23%CLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC: $49k → 23%CLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC: $36k → 23%CLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC: $9k → 23%SPIRIT TIDE LLC: $28k → 23%SPIRIT TIDE LLC: $25k → 23%SPIRIT TIDE LLC: $20k → 23%SOLIDARITY LLC: $42k → 23%Breathe Free LLC: $29k → 23%SOLIDARITY LLC: $10k → 23%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.
$1.9M · 13 repeat orgs$691k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$519k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.

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

  • GM
    GUSTO MOVING PICTURES LLC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $544k
  • CF
    COMMUTED FILM LLC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $309k
  • SF
    SERENDIPITY FILMS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $199k

Funded once

  • RM
    RISK MASTER LP
    one grant, 2023 · $294k
  • LM
    LUNCH MONEY FILMS LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $98k
  • BF
    Breathe Free LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $29k
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

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 27 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUSTO MOVING PICTURES LLC: $543,791 · OtherGUSTO MOVING PICTURES LLCCOMMUTED FILM LLC: $309,065 · OtherCOMMUTED FILM LLCRISK MASTER LP: $294,000 · OtherRISK MASTER LPSERENDIPITY FILMS: $199,154 · OtherSERENDIPITY FILMSCLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLC: $195,189 · OtherCLAIBORNE AVE HISTORY PROJECT LLCROLEPLAY LLC: $164,306 · OtherROLEPLAY LLCNatchez Film LLC: $132,904 · OtherTUCKERGURL: $102,900 · OtherLUNCH MONEY FILMS LLC: $98,000 · Other+18 more: $564,688 · Other+18 more
Other$2,603,997

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

International Documentary Foundation IncCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Video Veracity Inc?

Find your warmest path to Video Veracity Inc 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 27 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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