California · Nonprofit
IMPACT GUILD INC
IMPACT GUILD INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,299,317 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($323,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $963k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $593k
What Impact Guild Inc does
Mission
Use entertainment media and storytelling to educate diverse audiences, and the public at large, about some of the country's most pressing issues, including social justice, environment, education, health, economic empowerment and civic engagement; continued on schedule oand to connect, support and advocate for people using media, entertainment and other forms of storytelling for social good and healthy democracies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Affinity group & initiatives: affinity groups are cross-sector communities within the impact guild focused on addressing specific social issues. These groups bring together members from diverse peer groups to collaborate, share expertise, and drive meaningful impact around a shared mission. Local & regional gatherings: impact guild supports local & regional convenings where experts, executives, creatives, and others interested in using entertainment media for impact can network, collaborate, and learn.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Community infrastructure for accelerating intelligence: the ciai project is a custom artificial intelligence platform being jointly developed by impact guild, future stack strategies, and hattaway communications to unite media/entertainment leaders, funders, and practicioner ngos to accelerate intelligence across multiple points of the pro-democracy ecosystem.
$194,508 spent54% of program spendingAnnual forum: national convening of experts, executives, creatives, influencers and advocates focused on democracy & media in the national climate.
$59,089 spent$31,314 earned by the program16% of program spendingAffinity group & initiatives: affinity groups are cross-sector communities within the impact guild focused on addressing specific social issues. These groups bring together members from diverse peer groups to collaborate, share expertise, and drive meaningful impact around a shared mission.
$55,917 spent16% of program spendingLocal & regional gatherings: impact guild supports local & regional convenings where experts, executives, creatives, and others interested in using entertainment media for impact can network, collaborate, and learn.
$26,592 spent$11,107 earned by the program7% of program spendingFriday forums/first fridays: monthly gatherings to learn about, discuss and explore collaboration on the most pressing issues facing the media, art & entertainment industry and the world at large.
$22,313 spent$22,214 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $358,419.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $133k to $594k (+347%).
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.
93% of IMPACT GUILD INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $99k → $96k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 IMPACT GUILD 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
IMPACT GUILD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
28% 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 IMPACT GUILD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 78% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of IMPACT GUILD INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
53% of IMPACT GUILD INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $354k 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
IMPACT GUILD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like IMPACT GUILD 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IMPACT GUILD INC?
- IMPACT GUILD INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,299,317 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($323,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMPACT GUILD INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,299,317 in grants to IMPACT GUILD INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMPACT GUILD INC?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $323,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMPACT GUILD 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.
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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 15 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