Illinois · Nonprofit
AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,031 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Americas Media Initiative Nfp does
Mission
Americas media initiative's mission is to produce, distribute and screen film and video made in the americas by community media organizations and independent filmmakers. Through screenings at universities, cultural institutions, community media centers, film festivals and online our goal is to broaden the u.s. Audience's understanding of issues faced by marginalized populations and encourage further investigation through cultural exchange.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Distributionsami has 17 films in its film catalogue; a distribution collaboration with icarus films has increased our visibility in both cultural and academic spheres. Since we began our collaboration with icarus films in 2013, over 50 film festivals both national and international have requested screeners of films from the ami cuba catalogue.in 2025 we added a feature documentary, land of the whale directed by armando capo.juan antonio garcia and endac.org continue to receive praise from scholars, journalists and filmmakers. At the end of 2025 there were over 8400 entries on the site. The stone center at tulane university has committed to support for 2025-2026.
$6,963 spent5% of program spendingProduction we are currently producing two documentary projects, el sueno and the healer. El sueno looks at the lives of several immigrants living in chicago. The healer is a short, experimental film that looks at the life of dr. Zhengang guo a seventh generation traditional chinese medicine practitioner who served the chicago community for over 40 years.
$108,206 spent83% of program spendingHealer program
$9,508 spent7% of program spendingOther miscellaneous programs
$5,252 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $129,929.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $24k to $76k (+218%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $10k.
1 of 4 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 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP’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
AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 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
AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP: 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 AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP?
- AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,031 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $110,031 in grants to AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP?
- FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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