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THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC
THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,867 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($65,836). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc does
Mission
The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and maintain a high standard of membership qualification, to preserve the heritage of the uk film, television and allied industries, to encourage and promote research in the arts, sciences and techniques of film and television production and allied industries and to that end to offer screenings, events, meetings, newsletters, lectures, seminars and workshops, to cooperate with education authorities and organizations to procure the better appreciation and understanding of film and television, to encourage the education aspects of film, television and games to
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Learning, inclusion and talent programs including the bafta student awards, mentorship programs, and scholarships serve to remove barriers to careers and to foster successful professional development within the film, games and television industries. This also includes regular networking opportunities to ensure professional relationships between peers are created and nurtured.year-round professional development is offered through panels, masterclasses and screening q&as, available to both in-person audiences as well as wide online audiences through taped content.
$1,255,042 spentof which $126,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,255,042.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.2M to $3.8M (+22%).
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.
94% of THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Joyce Pierpoline
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $14k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA 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
THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
96% of THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC?
- THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,867 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($65,836). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $129,867 in grants to THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA INC?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $65,836 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS NORTH AMERICA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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