New York · Nonprofit
Moonshot Initiative INC
Moonshot Initiative INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,060 to it, the largest being EVERY ORG ($40,060). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Moonshot Initiative INC does
Mission
Promote gender equity in the film & television industry
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Moonshot Film Challenge is a flagship program that places women and gender-expansive filmmakers on professional production crews to write, shoot, and edit a short film in 78 hours. Participants receive access to over $1,000,000 in professional cinema equipment, full production insurance, hands-on technical training, and mentorship from industry professionals. Women and gender-expansive people fill every leadership role on each production, including director, producer, and cinematographer. The organization has supported the production of 41 short films, reaching over 1,200 filmmakers, with 150-plus festival acceptances. 99.4% of participants report they would hire or refer a fellow participant for future work.
Moonshot Accelerator is a competitive fellowship program for emerging television writers from underrepresented communities. Fellows receive script development support, pitch coaching, and professional development before meeting directly with development executives at major networks and streaming platforms including HBO, Netflix, Showtime, Starz, Neon, Comedy Central, and Warner Bros. To date, the program has served 31 fellows, with 84% receiving a script request following their pitch meeting. Fellows have gone on to secure writers room positions and active development deals.
Moonshot Initiative provides free professional development programming for emerging film and television professionals through workshops, courses, and networking events. Sessions are led by working industry professionals including directors, showrunners, screenwriters, and casting directors, covering topics ranging from craft and storytelling to career navigation and industry access. The program has reached nearly 6,000 New York-based attendees and generated over 20,000 global sign-ups.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,451.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Moonshot Initiative INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
Moonshot Initiative INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“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
Moonshot Initiative INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Moonshot Initiative INC receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Moonshot Initiative 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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Moonshot Initiative 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 Moonshot Initiative INC?
- Moonshot Initiative INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,060 to it, the largest being EVERY ORG ($40,060). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Moonshot Initiative INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $91,060 in grants to Moonshot Initiative INC.
- Who is the largest funder of Moonshot Initiative INC?
- EVERY ORG is the largest funder on record, with $40,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Moonshot Initiative 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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