Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 281 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,087,779 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($1,844,500). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 281
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What The Center for Independent Documentary Inc does
Mission
To produce and distribute socially conscious documentaries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization produced and distributed socially conscious documentaries from perspectives not usually addressed by the mainstream media.
$12,128,830 spent$414,188 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,128,830.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.4M to $8.9M (+40%).
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: 2024 22% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC’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. 2 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
Susan Walsh
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 86 funders, grant income rose $687k → $4.5M.
54 of 281 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 281 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
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 14 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 14 funders to its left
50% 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 CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 11% · 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% — 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
25% of THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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 CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.8M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$8.0M
- Department of the Interior$506k
- National Endowment for the Arts$198k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC?
- THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 281 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,087,779 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($1,844,500). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 281 organizations giving $23,087,779 in grants to THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC, 109 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC?
- THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,844,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 281 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing