Illinois · Nonprofit
WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC
WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,241 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($12,241). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $970
What What Matters Productions Inc does
Mission
To foster, promote and advance greater knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the activities and operations of organizations and individuals who assist those in need, who promote social justice and other charitable and educational activities and thereby, to transform the community-at-large into a more peaceful, loving and equal place.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
What Matters Productions has donated it's time and energy this year to helping non profits reach their goals and tell their stories. We have helped other non-profits apply for grants to hire us to make good videos for them so they can share the good work they do! We are dedicated to helping use video to make a positive impact on our world. We have won awards with our short films and have helped nonprofits raise money.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
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.
0% of WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC: 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 WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC?
- WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,241 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($12,241). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,241 in grants to WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,241 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHAT MATTERS PRODUCTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1 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