New York · Nonprofit
DOC SOCIETY INC
DOC SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,940,467 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,445,654). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Doc Society Inc does
Mission
We bring people together to unleash the transformational power of independent documentary film. We serve individual filmmakers and the growing network of partners who support them globally. We help build new models, aiming to innovate, share freely and innovate again.a commitment to anti-racism, economic equity and climate justice is embedded in and informs all we do to promote dignity and belonging.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization supports documentary filmmakers worldwide by providing financial resources and strategic guidance to advance impactful storytelling. Our mission includes: - providing production financing and strategic support to independent filmmakers. - facilitating partnerships between filmmakers and other philanthropic funders to strengthen documentary projects with social impact. - organizing and leading labs and workshops to engage storytelling communities regionally, nationally, and internationally. - assisting filmmakers in developing impact strategies to reach broader audiences, including underserved communities and civil society organizations.through cultural strategy initiatives, the organization seeks to foster storytelling that contributes to more just, inclusive societies and sustainable futures. Our labs model has been successfully implemented and adapted across various regions, including the brazilian amazon, east and west africa, south asia, mena, and europe.beyond grantmaking and creative development, the organization is committed to strengthening independent voices, reaching underserved audiences, and facilitating critical public conversations that extend beyond…
$1,779,079 spentof which $1,136,661 as grants$154,744 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,779,079.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $3.1M (+82%).
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 3% · 2022 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of DOC SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Anurima Bhargava
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $590k → $1.7M.
14 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 DOC SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
DOC SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 DOC SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 31% · 2019 59% · 2020 78% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
21% of DOC SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of DOC SOCIETY 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 $4.5M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
DOC SOCIETY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DOC SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
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 DOC SOCIETY INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Doc Society UK · exempt
- Doc Society Charitable Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOC SOCIETY 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOC SOCIETY INC?
- DOC SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,940,467 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,445,654). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOC SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $10,940,467 in grants to DOC SOCIETY INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOC SOCIETY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,445,654 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOC SOCIETY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 48 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