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Perspective Media Initiatives Inc: 92 grants to organizations, $8 million (tax year ended November 2024)
Perspective Media Initiatives Inc, a private foundation in New York, NY, paid 92 grants to organizations totaling $8,013,815 in its tax year ended November 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on October 10, 2025. The largest was $500,000 to Potential Energy Coalition Inc in New York, NY for general operating support.
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- EIN
- 874236519
- Based in
- New York, NY
- Assets
- $21,118,322
- Grants paid
- $8,013,815
- Tax year ended
- November 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended November 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed October 10, 2025, IRS object ID 202502839349100430. It reported $8,013,815 in grants paid; 92 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potential Energy Coalition Inc | New York, NY | General operating support | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Cinema Tropical | New York, NY | Marketing interventions fund | $350,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Firelight Media | New York, NY | William greaves and impact campaign funds | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $255,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Accelerate Change | Boston, MA | Operating support | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Denver Film Society | Denver, CO | Exposure lab's organizational capacity | Arts, culture and humanities | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Represent Justice | Los Angeles, CA | Operating support ($100,000); capacity building ($150,000) | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Represent Justice | Los Angeles, CA | Core support for storytelling programs | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Doc Society | Brooklyn, NY | Global impact producers alliance project | $225,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American University | Washington, DC | State of the documentary field study | Education | $224,533 | apps.irs.gov |
| Women Make Movies | New York, NY | Multitude films general operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $215,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Doc Society | Brooklyn, NY | General operating support | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Working Films | Wilmington, NC | General operating support | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Common Counsel Foundation | Oakland, CA | General operating support | Community improvement and capacity building | $190,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Independent Documentary | Newton, MA | Fwd-doc renewal | $180,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Allied Media Projects | Detroit, MI | Emergence media, reimagine project support: a legal framework for community-accountable mediamaking | Arts, culture and humanities | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Independent Documentary | Newton, MA | Canadaland limited-series | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American University | Washington, DC | State of the documentary field study | Education | $130,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Black Lily Inc | Philadelphia, PA | General operating support | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Just Vision Inc | Washington, DC | Development and production support for untitled albany project | International, foreign affairs and national security | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Working Films | Wilmington, NC | Impact kickstart 2024 | $120,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Allied Media Projects | Detroit, MI | Undocumented filmmakers collective | Arts, culture and humanities | $110,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Afterimage Public Media | San Francisco, CA | Production support for power and light | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Independent Documentary | Newton, MA | Production support for the playbook | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Documentary Africa | Nairobi, KE | Real reel impact program | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Firelight Media | New York, NY | General operating support | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Level Ground | Los Angeles, CA | Impact support for union | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Native American Journalists Association | Norman, OK | Impact support for bad press | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Peace Is Loud Inc | New York, NY | Operating support | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting | Emeryville, CA | Impact campaign support for victim-suspect documentary | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Film Collaborative | Los Angeles, CA | Post-production and impact support for fault lines | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Women Make Movies | New York, NY | Post-production and impact support for life after | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Youth FX | Albany, NY | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Peace Is Loud | New York, NY | General operating support | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $85,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Taturana | Sao Paulo, BR | General operating support | $85,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Chicken & Egg Pictures | Brooklyn, NY | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Color Farm Impact | Brooklyn, NY | Impact support for the big payback | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Documentary Educational Resources | Watertown, MA | Post-production and impact support for election administration project | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Floodlight | Washington, DC | Core support for documentary collaborative project | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Independent Feature Project | Brooklyn, NY | Impact support for anonymous sister | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New Orleans Film Society | New Orleans, LA | General operating support | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Video Veracity | New Orleans, LA | Impact support for commuted | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Video Veracity | New Orleans, LA | Production and impact support for unlearned | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Women Make Movies | New York, NY | Production and impact support for counted | Arts, culture and humanities | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Documentary | Brooklyn, NY | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Women Make Movies | New York, NY | Impact support for love apptually | Arts, culture and humanities | $65,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| If Not Us Then Who | Venice, CA | General operating support | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Peace Is Loud | New York, NY | Collective lens dissemination | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $55,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Uniondocs | Brooklyn, NY | Project support for sunshine cinema | $53,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Beirut Dccultural Association for Cinema and Audiovisual Aflamuna | Baabda, LE | General operating support | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brown Girls Doc Mafia | Bronx, NY | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Documental Ambulante Ac | Ciudad de Mexico, MX | General operating support | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Taturana | Sao Paulo, BR | Iii latin american forum on film and social impact - colombia edition | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Film Collaborative | Los Angeles, CA | Production support for disclosure follow-up project | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Redford Center | San Francisco, CA | Post-production and impact support for let no one lose heart | Environment | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Women Make Movies | New York, NY | Impact support for razing liberty square | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Liblab LLC | Philadelphia, PA | 2023 - 2025 inf convening series | $45,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Austin Film Society | Austin, TX | Impact support of for the record | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Axs Lab | Long Island City, NY | Axs film fund | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | Core support for justice for my sister project | Community improvement and capacity building | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Sisters in Cinema | Chicago, IL | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Film Collaborative | Los Angeles, CA | Impact support for queendom | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Film Collaborative | Los Angeles, CA | Dc/dox engagement and accountability projects | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Bay Area Video Coalition Inc | San Francisco, CA | Mediamaker project support | Arts, culture and humanities | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cinema Tropical | New York, NY | Post-production and impact support for ninxs | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Story Money Impact | Vancouver, CA | General operating support | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Walking Iris | San Francisco, CA | Dhaka doclab impact project | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Allied Media Projects | Detroit, MI | Detroit narrative agency | Arts, culture and humanities | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Southern Documentary Fund | Durham, NC | General operating support | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Allied Media Projects | Detroit, MI | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Common Counsel Foundation | Oakland, CA | Org effectiveness project | Community improvement and capacity building | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Documentary Producers Alliance | Dover, DE | General operating support | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Historias En Kilometros | Bogota, CO | Community film training and production program in colombia and kenya | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Points North Institute | Camden, ME | General operating support | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Women Make Movies | New York, NY | Multitude films: 2024 org effectiveness | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Allied Media Projects | Detroit, MI | Reimagine organizational effectiveness | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Allied Media Projects | Detroit, MI | Undocumented filmmakers collective org effectiveness project | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Black Lily Inc | Philadelphia, PA | Org effectiveness strategic planning project | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Center for Independent Documentary | Newton, MA | Fwd-doc org effectiveness | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Chicken & Egg Pictures | Brooklyn, NY | Organizational change management | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Firelight Media | New York, NY | Crm licenses/training and fund development strategy | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| International Documentary Association | Los Angeles, CA | Strategic planning project | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New Orleans Film Society | New Orleans, LA | Organizational effectiveness support | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Peace Is Loud | New York, NY | Crm support organizational effectiveness project | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Represent Justice | Los Angeles, CA | Org effectiveness for website development project | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Taturana | Sao Paulo, BR | Org effectiveness project for succession planning and diversity policy | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Walking Iris | San Francisco, CA | Empowering a-doc: strategic planning and organizational transformation | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Working Films | Wilmington, NC | Org effectiveness strategic planning & retreats | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Youth FX | Albany, NY | Org effectiveness project supporting organizational growth | Arts, culture and humanities | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Uniondocs | Brooklyn, NY | Sunshine cinema org effectiveness 2024 | $16,282 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Beirut Dccultural Association for Cinema and Audiovisual Aflamuna | Baabda, LE | Digital capacity building | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brown Girls Doc Mafia | Bronx, NY | 2024 org effectiveness project | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Scribe Video Center Inc | Philadelphia, PA | Impact support for the command center to bring women home | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Arts, culture and humanities | $2,660,000 |
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $885,000 |
| Education | $354,533 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $255,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $125,000 |
| Environment | $50,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| New York | $3,079,282 |
| California | $1,525,000 |
| Massachusetts | $775,000 |
| District of Columbia | $554,533 |
| North Carolina | $370,000 |
| Michigan | $355,000 |
| Colorado | $250,000 |
| Louisiana | $245,000 |
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Updated October 10, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.