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WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION

WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,168,947 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($394,828). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.4M
Revenue FY2025
29
Funders on record
$2.2M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
18/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

Against its field

WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 70 ($2.6M) Expenses 86 ($4.1M) Net assets 98 ($18M)2019 Revenue 64 ($2.4M) Expenses 70 ($3.3M) Net assets 90 ($16M)2020 Revenue 99 ($3.7M) Expenses 86 ($4.1M) Net assets 79 ($14M)2021 Revenue 91 ($3.5M) Expenses 123 ($5.8M) Net assets 80 ($14M)2022 Revenue 50 ($1.9M) Expenses 55 ($2.6M) Net assets 72 ($13M)2023 Revenue 48 ($1.8M) Expenses 53 ($2.5M) Net assets 61 ($11M)2024 Revenue 40 ($1.5M) Expenses 54 ($2.6M) Net assets 64 ($11M)2025 Revenue 64 ($2.4M) Expenses 62 ($2.9M) Net assets 59 ($11M)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (62)Net assets (59)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$978k
17
$1.5M
18
$908k
19
$345k
20
$2.4M
21
$727k
22
$704k
23
$1.0M
24
$517k
25
8.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $86k → $267k.

9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)50% 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: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Association of Theatre Owners Inc); $75k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION’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

WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

69% 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 WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION.

18%
largest funder
46%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 76% · 2019 73% · 2020 30% · 2021 41% · 2022 24% · 2023 24%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

41% of WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.

MN
WI
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
TN
DC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 11%Fundraising 10%

Governance

29
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 38 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
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AL
GA
FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION?
WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,168,947 to it, the largest being Greater Horizons ($394,828). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,168,947 in grants to WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION?
Greater Horizons is the largest funder on record, with $394,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION 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 29funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing