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REEL MEDICINE MEDIA

REEL MEDICINE MEDIA (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($553,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$727k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$965k
Net assets
$410k
1/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Reel Medicine Media does

Mission

Reel Medicine Medias mission is to ensure that everyone has access to the most compassionate healthcare possible. We firmly believe in the transformative power of storytelling to spark a movement towards humanistic and equitable healthcare. Our goal is to inspire meaningful conversations move hearts and minds and change the way we die in America. To fulfill this mission we create documentary films impact programs and film-based education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Chaplain & The Doctor is a feature documentary film and national impact campaign designed to spark dialogue and drive change addressing bias and inequity in the healthcare system. The film follows the 15-year relationship between ICU and Palliative Care physician Dr. Jessica Zitter and hospital Chaplain Betty Clark exploring how spirituality interprofessional collaboration and human connection can transform care for seriously ill patients.

    $263,187 spent
    82% of program spending
  2. Educational programs and partnerships featured speaking engagements and media-based programs for healthcare providers and community members on topics including end-of-life care caregiving implicit bias and interprofessional collaboration. Programs were delivered in partnership with healthcare institutions and community organizations.

    $29,802 spent
    9% of program spending
  3. Marketing activities included print and media outreach opinion pieces and articles designed to raise public awareness about healthcare bias end-of-life care and the role of chaplaincy in medicine. Outreach targeted healthcare providers faith communities caregiving organizations and the general public through media channels email campaigns and social media. The film reached audiences in more than 20 film festivals nationally.

    $27,516 spent
    9% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,505.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($686k) Expenses 100 ($556k) Net assets 100 ($204k)2024 Revenue 103 ($706k) Expenses 141 ($784k) Net assets 61 ($124k)2025 Revenue 106 ($727k) Expenses 79 ($441k) Net assets 201 ($410k)
202320242025
Revenue (106)Expenses (79)Net assets (201)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $149k to $432k (+189%).

$212k
$149k
$432k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of REEL MEDICINE MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
’23
−$79k
’24
$286k
’25
11
months of
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.

Chief executive

Catherine King

Executive Director

Board chair

Mark Zitter

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed897
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·02
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 REEL MEDICINE MEDIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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

REEL MEDICINE MEDIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58% 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 REEL MEDICINE MEDIA.

57%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

58% of REEL MEDICINE MEDIA'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 $406k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

NY
OR
CA
AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $559k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REEL MEDICINE MEDIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like REEL MEDICINE MEDIA

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In California

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 13%Fundraising 14%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REEL MEDICINE MEDIA: 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 REEL MEDICINE MEDIA?
REEL MEDICINE MEDIA (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($553,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does REEL MEDICINE MEDIA have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $965,250 in grants to REEL MEDICINE MEDIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REEL MEDICINE MEDIA?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $553,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REEL MEDICINE MEDIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 9 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