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DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC

DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$42M
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$10k
Grants received
$64M
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($29M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets 100 ($60M)2018 Revenue 105 ($31M) Expenses 101 ($28M) Net assets 104 ($62M)2019 Revenue 116 ($34M) Expenses 108 ($29M) Net assets 112 ($67M)2020 Revenue 110 ($32M) Expenses 124 ($34M) Net assets 110 ($66M)2021 Revenue 140 ($41M) Expenses 143 ($39M) Net assets 114 ($68M)2022 Revenue 156 ($46M) Expenses 151 ($41M) Net assets 119 ($71M)2023 Revenue 135 ($40M) Expenses 165 ($45M) Net assets 109 ($65M)2024 Revenue 145 ($42M) Expenses 160 ($44M) Net assets 107 ($64M)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (160)Net assets (107)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.0M
17
$3.1M
18
$4.4M
19
$1.7M
20
$1.8M
21
$4.3M
22
$5.6M
23
$1.3M
24
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29 on record.

State$29
Top programs
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$29

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Dga Political Action Committee · exempt
  • Directos Guild Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC?
DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC.
Who is the largest funder of DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC?
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS 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 DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing