GrantmakersNew York

Entertainment 2 Affect Change

New York, NY · EIN 46-2660255. Reported 41 grants totalling $3,500,798 to 32 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

32organizations funded
$45,000median reported grant
$3,500,798granted, 2022-2024
35%of grantees funded again the next year
31%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Entertainment 2 Affect Change, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 31% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 35% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $45,000. Half of what it reported fell between $14,000 and $89,970; the smallest was $5,342 and the largest $727,092. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
7 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Willa ProductionsAlbany, NY$1,072,092222024
Believe LimitedLos Angeles, CA$322,500222024
Wanderlust Productions LLCEllicott City, MD$240,000222024
Green Tide RisingAgoura Hills, CA$232,656112024
Believe Limited LLCLos Angeles, CA$213,750112022
Deliver US Film LLCLos Angeles, CA$211,027222024
Ish DevelopmentNew York, NY$200,000112024
Deliver US Film LLCLos Angeles, CA$120,052112022
Cold Cockle LLCGranada Hills, CA$110,530222024
La Maestra Doc LLCEncino, CA$89,970112024
Arcadian Entertainment LLCNew York, NY$78,050112024
88 Petals Production LLCEverett, WA$75,500222024
Sea Sisters LLCLong Beach, CA$74,251112024
Laxmi's Hope LLCSalt Lake City, UT$59,599112024
Residential SchoolBillings, MT$55,060112023
Ubiquitous EntertainmentAustin, TX$50,000112024
Mcknight FoundationMinneapolis, MN$45,000112024
Redins LLCBrooklyn, NY$33,540222024
Kind Ones LLCGlendale, CA$26,053112024
Chicago Media ProjectChicago, IL$25,000112024
Dixenfeld Miller White Productions LLCAnnapolis, MD$25,000112023
Unshakeable ProductionSandy Spring, MD$25,000222024
Just Jump Films LLCOmaha, NE$19,250112024
Unshakeable ProductionSandy Spring, MD$19,067112022
Aggressively Compassionate LLCChicago, IL$14,342222024
Rob Green-GrizzlyMissoula, MT$14,000112024
Rebel Doc LLCBerkeley, CA$12,375112024
Pen to Paper Media LLCStudio City, CA$9,998112024
Endo CollectiveOxford, MS$7,500112022
Tiny Edits LLCCovina, CA$7,322112023
ChoicedudesSan Francisco, CA$6,560112024
Rb ProductionsConcord, NH$5,754112023

9 of 32 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 5 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Civil Rights
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20224$360,369$69,559
202313$899,508$30,500
202424$2,240,921$45,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

41% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$1.4M
New York
$1.4M
Maryland
$309K
Washington
$76K
Montana
$69K
Utah
$60K
Texas
$50K
Minnesota
$45K

Down to the city

Albany, NY
$1.1M
Los Angeles, CA
$867K
New York, NY
$278K
Ellicott City, MD
$240K
Agoura Hills, CA
$233K
Granada Hills, CA
$111K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Sundance Institute2 shared recipientsPaypal Charitable Giving Fund2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $45,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Entertainment 2 Affect Change's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 2 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 22 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1178 Broadway 3RD Floor 4101, New York, NY, 10001.

EIN 46-2660255 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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