California · Nonprofit
Animals United Movement
Animals United Movement (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $674,250 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($333,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $876k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $674k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Animals United Movement does
Mission
A.U.M. FILMS AND MEDIA'S mission is to effectively and efficiently represent and elevate a harmonious voice for all life on this planet. We promote awareness and equality for all beings and the environment through all forms of media, social and environmental justice advocacy projects, and educational centers. We feel the best way to actualize world peace and to make our planet survive, and even thrive, is through a movement towards compassionate co-existence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Documentary film production - a.u.m. Films creates, produces and supports documentary films which uncover harmful industries facing people and the planet and investigates why these practices are allowed to continue. During the year ending december 31, 2019, the organization was in production with it's third full-length documentary film, "seaspiracy," which focuses on the world's oceans, and the various leading issues causing them to be destroyed. The organization provided financial support for the film "slay", a film being produced by let us be heroes, ltd. The organization created and/or provided consultation and/or financial support to various other film productions furthering its exempt purpose.the organization continues to receive revenues from internet streaming contracts and dvd and dowload sales of its two previously released documentary films which havereceived numerous awards. "cowspiracy: the sustainability secret" (2014) is anaward-winning feature-length environmental documentary which uncovers the animalagriculture industry's damaging effect on deforestation, water consumption andpollution and how the leaders in the environmental movement refuse to talk about it."what…
$906,973 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $906,973.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $629k (−49%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Animals United Movement’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $128k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Animals United Movement’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
Animals United Movement leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Animals United Movement.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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
64% of Animals United Movement's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $241k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $433k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
Animals United Movement's revenue fell 49% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Animals United Movement
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Animals United Movement: 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 Animals United Movement?
- Animals United Movement (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $674,250 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($333,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Animals United Movement have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $674,250 in grants to Animals United Movement, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Animals United Movement?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $333,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Animals United Movement 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing