California · Nonprofit
Academia Foundation
Academia Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,010 to it, the largest being THE CARRIE LOUISE HAMILTON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $-4156
What Academia Foundation does
Mission
The Academia Foundation is committed to providing opportunities for intercultural and educational exchange between students, educators, educational organizations and the public in order to promote the broadening of perspectives. The Foundation seeks to inspire environmental, humanitarian and social responsibility through the power of motion pictures and the Internet, two of the world's most powerful communication tools. It is the Academia Foundation's goal to encourage social responsibility amongst young filmmakers, and to inspire people of various cultures to come together and overcome the challenges we face in preserving our environment and bettering the world. This is accomplished through the hosting of both online and on-site events, competitions, seminars, interviews and numerous other activities that help educate and create awareness about environmental, and humanitarian issues as well as encourage learning and social responsibility.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Academia Foundation is committed to providing opportunities for intercultural and educational exchange between students, educators, educational organizations and the public in order to promote the broadening of perspectives. The Foundation seeks to inspire environmental, humanitarian and social responsibility through the power of motion pictures and the Internet, two of the world's most powerful communication tools. It is the Academia Foundation's goal to encourage social responsibility amongst young filmmakers, and to inspire people of various cultures to come together and overcome the challenges we face in preserving our environment and bettering the world. This is accomplished through the hosting of both online and on-site events, competitions, seminars, interviews and numerous other activities that help educate and create awareness about environmental, and humanitarian issues as well as encourage learning and social responsibility.
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Anthony Al-Jamie
CEO
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Academia Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Academia Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Academia Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Academia Foundation receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Academia Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Academia Foundation?
- Academia Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,010 to it, the largest being THE CARRIE LOUISE HAMILTON FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Academia Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,010 in grants to Academia Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Academia Foundation?
- THE CARRIE LOUISE HAMILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Academia Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing