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ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION

ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being Motion Picture Association of America Inc ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$41M
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$8k
Grants received
$39M
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 ($36M) Expenses 100 ($35M) Net assets 100 ($28M)2018 Revenue 102 ($37M) Expenses 103 ($36M) Net assets 101 ($28M)2019 Revenue 113 ($40M) Expenses 115 ($40M) Net assets 100 ($28M)2020 Revenue 113 ($40M) Expenses 122 ($43M) Net assets 86 ($24M)2021 Revenue 84 ($30M) Expenses 87 ($30M) Net assets 96 ($27M)2022 Revenue 111 ($40M) Expenses 108 ($38M) Net assets 99 ($28M)2023 Revenue 108 ($39M) Expenses 95 ($33M) Net assets 114 ($32M)2024 Revenue 101 ($36M) Expenses 100 ($35M) Net assets 123 ($34M)2025 Revenue 114 ($41M) Expenses 101 ($36M) Net assets 139 ($39M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (101)Net assets (139)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 1% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$738k
17
$400k
18
$142k
19
$2.2M
20
$274k
21
$2.1M
22
$5.2M
23
$1.3M
24
$5.2M
25
8.0
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 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

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.

Organizations like ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Esa's Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION: 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 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION?
ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being Motion Picture Association of America Inc ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION?
Motion Picture Association of America Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), 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