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SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,685,134 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,335,399). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Found does
Mission
The sag-aftra foundation (the "foundation") provides vital assistance and educational programming to the professionals of sag-aftra while serving the public at large through its signature children's literacy program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The emergency financial assistance program serves as a crucial lifeline, providing help to eligible members and their families who are facing unexpected or extreme hardship, assisting them with emergency expenses. We offer:emergency financial assistance for basic costs of living, such as housing, medical bills, groceries, and utilities.short-term supportive case management services with our qualified, in-house social workers. Services include needs assessment, crisis intervention, education, and counseling.connections and referrals to additional services to help meet basic needs, further financial support, healthcare, and disability support.disaster relief fund: provides urgent financial support to sag-aftra members and their families affected by natural disasters. In 2025, the sag-aftra foundation's disaster relief fund provided financial assistance to hundreds of members affected by the eaton and palisades fires. The program offered emergency grants to eligible members who lost their homes or were displaced as a result of the fires, helping to address immediate needs during the recovery period.the scholarship programs: provides opportunities for sag-aftra members and their…
$2,723,110 spentof which $2,125,203 as grants31% of program spendingPerformers programs: in order to prepare a dynamic talent pool for success in the evolving entertainment media environment, the foundation offers the performers programs, a broad educational roster with subjects ranging from audition technique and self-marketing to panel discussions with accomplished actors and moderated talks with respected directors. These programs encourage performing artists to take charge of their careers, refine their craft, learn new skills, and establish lifelong habits of self-motivated professional development. Over the course of the last year the foundation continued to scale up in-person performers programs in house as well as continuing to offer virtual programs to the sag-aftra community. The foundation also add new recorded educational content to the foundation's website video gallery and youtube channel, to help ensure that members who are unable to attend in person have access to this programming. The business: the business provides participating members with an enhanced understanding of entertainment's financial and operational mechanics, as well as current trends and conditions across the industry. Attendees learn practical strategies for social…
$3,732,579 spentof which $580,000 as grants42% of program spendingIn august 2024, the foundation opened the doors to its new facility in los angeles "the meryl streep center for performing artists". The facility is dedicated to supporting a wide array of entirely free educational and career-building programs designed to help sag-aftra members advance their careers and refine their skills. It includes a 100-seat screening room, voiceover labs, on-camera labs and class rooms. In addition, the center houses the foundation's emergency financial assistance programs and offices.the foundation continues to have offices and educational facilities located at 1900 broadway in new york as well as the robin williams center, a 125-seat screening room located at 247 w 54th street, new york.
$1,905,152 spent$435,675 earned by the program21% of program spendingLiteracy initiatives - storyline online children's literacy program. Storyline online is a free, online video library created to support reading development for children in kindergarten through fourth grade. The program features acclaimed actors who generously volunteer their time to read beloved children's books aloud, paired with imaginative, visually rich illustrations that bring each story to life.every video is accompanied by a comprehensive activity guide developed by a credentialed elementary educator and aligned with english language arts (ela) common core standards, making the content easy to use in classrooms, hospitals, and at home. Widely embraced by teachers, parents, and caregivers, storyline online has become an invaluable educational resource, reaching more than 900 million lifetime views as its popularity continues to grow.storyline online is an emmy award-winning program of the foundation. It was named the #1 best educational youtube channel for kids by parents magazine in 2021 and has been recognized by leading education and literacy organizations, american federation of school librarians, the american federation of teachers and the american library association,…
$500,931 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,861,772.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $44M to $75M (+68%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Cyd Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $561k → $3.1M.
13 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). These are real filings, and they are not money SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND raised.
From the IRS filings of SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
52% 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 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 62% · 2019 51% · 2020 42% · 2021 57% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
43% of SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M 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
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND has grown faster than half of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND?
- SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,685,134 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,335,399). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $11,685,134 in grants to SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,335,399 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND 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.
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 55 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