Maryland · Nonprofit
THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD
THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,350 to it, the largest being THE LEVITT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $5k
What The Backstorygroup Ltd does
Mission
The backstorygroup's mission is to promote and expand within the united states an awareness and knowledge of israel's vast cultural landscape and its developments in science & technology, music and the arts. The backstorygroup creates programs to create cross-cultural exchanges for professional and student producers of digital/broadcast content and film music to expose them to israel's culture and developments through educational missions to israel, including networking opportunities. The backstorygroup was incorporated with the purpose of providing this educational and cross-cultural opportunity within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The backstorygroup's 2017 educational mission to israel comprised of film, tv and digital media producers, and film music composers and executives. The trip itinernary including meeting with israeli film and music students at the rimon school of jazz and contermporary music, where the composers and music industry executives conducted an in-depth educational panel for students and film composersconducted a masterclass for composition students.they had the opportunity for substantive interaction with emerging composers as well as facility at the school.we attended a screening of student work from the sapir film school and participated in a question and answer section afterwards with the student filmmaker and head of the school.we heard presentations from an impact venture fund and a leader in high tech industry.the producers and composers also presented educational panels for the general public at the jerusalem cinematheque. Additionally, we were given presentations about high tech and scientific advances in current research in serveral fields.we also visited the ben gurion university of the desert, in beersheva, where we met with the engineers from acoustics labs and were given a…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $15k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD’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
THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 68% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
59% of THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.
Against its field
THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,288 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
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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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD?
- THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,350 to it, the largest being THE LEVITT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,350 in grants to THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD?
- THE LEVITT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BACKSTORYGROUP LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3 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