Funding search · EIN 874236519 · New York, NY

Perspective Media Initiatives

$21.0M
in grants paid: 187
grants: 78
recipients: 2021–2023
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$500,000
Potential Energy Coalition · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$350,000
Cinema Tropical · New York, NY · 2023
Marketing interventions fund
$255,000
Firelight Media · New York, NY · 2023
William greaves and impact campaign funds
$250,000
Accelerate Change · Boston, MA · 2023
Operating support
$250,000
Denver Film Society · Denver, CO · 2023
Exposure lab's organizational capacity
$250,000
Represent Justice · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Core support for storytelling programs
$250,000
Represent Justice · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Operating support ($100,000); capacity building ($150,000)
$225,000
Doc Society · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Global impact producers alliance project
$224,533
American University · Washington, DC · 2023
State of the documentary field study
$215,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
Multitude films general operating support
$200,000
Doc Society · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$200,000
Working Films · Wilmington, NC · 2023
General operating support
$190,000
Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
General operating support
$180,000
Center for Independent Documentary · Newton, MA · 2023
Fwd-doc renewal
$150,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
Emergence media, reimagine project support: a legal framework for community-accountable mediamaking
$150,000
Center for Independent Documentary · Newton, MA · 2023
Canadaland limited-series
$130,000
American University · Washington, DC · 2023
State of the documentary field study
$125,000
Black Lily · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General operating support
$125,000
Just Vision · Washington, DC · 2023
Development and production support for untitled albany project
$120,000
Working Films · Wilmington, NC · 2023
Impact kickstart 2024
$110,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
Undocumented filmmakers collective
$100,000
Firelight Media · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$100,000
Native American Journalists Association · Norman, OK · 2023
Impact support for bad press
$100,000
Level Ground · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Impact support for union
$100,000
Center for Independent Documentary · Newton, MA · 2023
Production support for the playbook
$100,000
The Center for Investigative Reporting · Emeryville, CA · 2023
Impact campaign support for victim-suspect documentary
$100,000
The Film Collaborative · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Post-production and impact support for fault lines
$100,000
Afterimage Public Media · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Production support for power and light
$100,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
Post-production and impact support for life after
$100,000
Documentary Africa · 2023
Real reel impact program
$100,000
Youth Fx · Albany, NY · 2023
General operating support
$100,000
Peace Is Loud · New York, NY · 2023
Operating support
$85,000
Taturana · 2023
General operating support
$85,000
Peace Is Loud · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$75,000
Independent Feature Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Impact support for anonymous sister
$75,000
Color Farm Impact · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Impact support for the big payback
$75,000
Video Veracity · New Orleans, LA · 2023
Impact support for commuted
$75,000
Video Veracity · New Orleans, LA · 2023
Production and impact support for unlearned
$75,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
Production and impact support for counted
$75,000
Documentary Educational Resources · Watertown, MA · 2023
Post-production and impact support for election administration project
$75,000
Floodlight · Washington, DC · 2023
Core support for documentary collaborative project
$75,000
New Orleans Film Society · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General operating support
$75,000
Chicken & Egg Pictures · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$65,000
American Documentary · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$65,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
Impact support for love apptually
$60,000
If Not US Then Who · Venice, CA · 2023
General operating support
$55,000
Peace Is Loud · New York, NY · 2023
Collective lens dissemination
$53,000
Uniondocs · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Project support for sunshine cinema
$50,000
Documental Ambulante Ac · 2023
General operating support
$50,000
Brown Girls Doc Mafia · Bronx, NY · 2023
General operating support
$50,000
The Redford Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Post-production and impact support for let no one lose heart
$50,000
Beirut Dccultural Association for Cinema and Audiovisual Aflamuna · 2023
General operating support
$50,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
Impact support for razing liberty square
$50,000
The Film Collaborative · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Production support for disclosure follow-up project
$50,000
Taturana · 2023
Iii latin american forum on film and social impact - colombia edition
$45,000
Liblab Llc · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
2023 - 2025 inf convening series
$40,000
The Film Collaborative · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Dc/dox engagement and accountability projects
$40,000
The Film Collaborative · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Impact support for queendom
$40,000
Austin Film Society · Austin, TX · 2023
Impact support of for the record
$40,000
Sisters in Cinema · Chicago, IL · 2023
General operating support
$40,000
Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Core support for justice for my sister project
$40,000
Axs Lab · Long Island City, NY · 2023
Axs film fund
$35,000
Walking Iris · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Dhaka doclab impact project
$35,000
Bay Area Video Coalition · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Mediamaker project support
$35,000
Story Money Impact · 2023
General operating support
$35,000
Cinema Tropical · New York, NY · 2023
Post-production and impact support for ninxs
$30,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
Detroit narrative agency
$30,000
Southern Documentary Fund · Durham, NC · 2023
General operating support
$25,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
General operating support
$25,000
Documentary Producers Alliance · Dover, DE · 2023
General operating support
$25,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023
Multitude films: 2024 org effectiveness
$25,000
Historias En Kilometros · 2023
Community film training and production program in colombia and kenya
$25,000
Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
Org effectiveness project
$25,000
Points North Institute · Camden, ME · 2023
General operating support
$20,000
Firelight Media · New York, NY · 2023
Crm licenses/training and fund development strategy
$20,000
Black Lily · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Org effectiveness strategic planning project
$20,000
Walking Iris · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Empowering a-doc: strategic planning and organizational transformation
$20,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
Reimagine organizational effectiveness
$20,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2023
Undocumented filmmakers collective org effectiveness project
$20,000
Represent Justice · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Org effectiveness for website development project
$20,000
Youth Fx · Albany, NY · 2023
Org effectiveness project supporting organizational growth
$20,000
Peace Is Loud · New York, NY · 2023
Crm support organizational effectiveness project
$20,000
International Documentary Association · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Strategic planning project
$20,000
Center for Independent Documentary · Newton, MA · 2023
Fwd-doc org effectiveness
$20,000
New Orleans Film Society · New Orleans, LA · 2023
Organizational effectiveness support
$20,000
Chicken & Egg Pictures · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Organizational change management
$20,000
Working Films · Wilmington, NC · 2023
Org effectiveness strategic planning & retreats
$20,000
Taturana · 2023
Org effectiveness project for succession planning and diversity policy
$16,282
Uniondocs · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Sunshine cinema org effectiveness 2024
$15,000
Beirut Dccultural Association for Cinema and Audiovisual Aflamuna · 2023
Digital capacity building
$15,000
Brown Girls Doc Mafia · Bronx, NY · 2023
2024 org effectiveness project
$10,000
The Scribe Video Center · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Impact support for the command center to bring women home
$830,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2022
Impact support for storming caesars palace ($50,000); post-production support of peace for nina ($30,000); post-production and impact support for untitled uvalde project ($75,000); post-production and impact support for…
$675,000
Doc Society · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Development and production support for the war on chaos ($75,000); operating support ($550,000); customer relationship management (crm) and grants management system ($25,000); gender-informed practices assessment (gipa)…
$510,000
Working Films · Wilmington, NC · 2022
Impact kickstart ($60,000); documentary accountability working group ($225,000); operating support ($200,000); leadership structure and professional development ($25,000)
$414,454
Center for Independent Documentary · Newton, MA · 2022
Impact support for the big payback ($150,000); impact support for a decent home ($75,000); filmmakers with disabilities (fwd-doc) organizational effectiveness project ($7,875); post-production and impact support for the…
$270,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022
Undocumented filmmakers collective ($120,000); emergence media, reimagine project support: a legal framework for community-accountable mediamaking ($150,000)
$250,000
Accelerate Change · Boston, MA · 2022
Operating support
$250,000
Denver Film Society · Denver, CO · 2022
Exposure lab's organizational capacity
$250,000
Youth Fx · Albany, NY · 2022
Operating support ($225,000); organizational effectiveness ($25,000)

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