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BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC

BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,036 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$14k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$203k
Net assets
$89k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Black Documentary Collective Inc does

Mission

Support the education of documentary filmmakers of African decent

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Support for artistic development & professional advancement for documentary media makers of African decent

    $41,847 spent
    90% of program spending
  2. Hidden Alchemy: Illuminating the Artistry of Black Female Producers

    $4,439 spentof which $13,500 as grants
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,286.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($135k)2024 Revenue 14 ($14k) Expenses 86 ($61k) Net assets 66 ($89k)
20232024
Revenue (14)Expenses (86)Net assets (66)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $135k to $89k (−34%).

$135k
$89k
20232024
Total assets

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’23
−$46k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $512 → $91k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Walking Iris Mediaunclassified
$14k
funders
2
4
4
3
1
1

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC’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

BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC.

89%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 55% · 2022 93% · 2023 99% — 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

92% of BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC's revenue fell 86% between 2023 and 2024.

Operating margin−329% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−86% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC?
BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,036 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $203,036 in grants to BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC?
COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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