GrantmakersLouisiana

Video Veracity Inc

New Orleans, LA · EIN 72-1246350. Reported 46 grants totalling $2,360,622 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$30,360median reported grant
$2,360,622granted, 2021-2024
56%of grantees funded again the next year
23%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 Video Veracity Inc, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A31Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 23% 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. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $30,360. Half of what it reported fell between $12,000 and $64,304; the smallest was $5,800 and the largest $294,000. 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
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 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
Gusto Moving Pictures LLCNew Orleans, LA$543,791332023
Risk Master LpLos Angeles, CA$294,000112023
Commuted Film LLCNew Orleans, LA$249,900332024
Claiborne Ave History Project LLCNew Orleans, LA$185,773442024
Roleplay LLCBrooklyn, NY$150,427442024
Serendipity FilmsSan Francisco, CA$137,932332024
Natchez Film LLCNew Orleans, LA$132,904222024
Lunch Money Films LLCNew Orleans, LA$98,000112023
War Room Documentary LLCLos Angeles, CA$72,668112024
Solidarity LLCNew Orleans, LA$64,607442024
TuckergurlNew Orleans, LA$58,800222024
Rudiments LLCNew Orleans, LA$57,546222024
Disco Smile ProductionsLos Angeles, CA$49,980112024
Spirit Tide LLCNew Orleans, LA$44,100222023
Breathe Free LLCNew Orleans, LA$29,400112023
Broad and Orleans Productions LLCNew Orleans, LA$29,400112024
Smilestyle LLCBaton Rouge, LA$28,558112021
Inquisitor Film LLCNew Orleans, LA$24,500112023
Native Resonance Productions LLCAtlanta, GA$20,129112024
My Ascension LLCBaton Rouge, LA$19,734222023
Kinfolk Partners LLCAtlanta, GA$19,600112024
Patucha ProductionsNew Orleans, LA$12,250112023
Title 8 Productions LLCVisalia, CA$12,000112022
The Water Literacy Film LLCNew Orleans, LA$9,800112021
Patois No Int Human Rights Film FestivalNew Orleanss, LA$8,943112022
Meaning Production CompanyDurham, NC$5,880112021

11 of 26 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 4 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.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20219$277,105$10,210
20229$501,488$19,600
202315$1,010,233$48,750
202413$571,796$49,841

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

68% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. 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.

Louisiana
$1.6M
California
$567K
New York
$150K
Georgia
$40K
North Carolina
$6K

Down to the city

New Orleans, LA
$1.5M
Los Angeles, CA
$417K
Brooklyn, NY
$150K
San Francisco, CA
$138K
Baton Rouge, LA
$48K
Atlanta, GA
$40K

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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.

International Documentary Foundation Inc3 shared recipientsSundance Institute2 shared recipientsThe Ford Foundation2 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 $30,360 -- 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 Louisiana.
  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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Video Veracity Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 13 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: 3020 Royal St, New Orleans, LA, 70117.

EIN 72-1246350 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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