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The Better Angels Society

Name: The Better Angels Society grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

33
grants reported: $41.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $65,100
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Grant history

All 33 reported grants, largest first.

$11.3M
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2024
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$10.9M
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2023
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$8.6M
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2025
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$8.2M
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association · Arlington, VA · 2022
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$400,000
Library of Congress · Washington, DC · 2022
Support for library of congress/lavine/ken burns prize for film
$280,750
Wnet · New York, NY · 2022
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$280,000
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$267,250
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$188,000
Lincoln Presidential Foundation · Springfield, IL · 2025
Recognition awards for student documentary films
$183,600
Wnet · New York, NY · 2023
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$173,000
Central Park Film Project · New York, NY · 2024
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$150,000
Skiff Mountain Films · New York, NY · 2022
Support for and recognition of student documentary filmmakers
$139,500
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2025
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$121,500
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$120,900
Wnet · New York, NY · 2024
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$68,000
Lincoln Presidential Foundation · Springfield, IL · 2024
Recognition awards for student documentary films
$65,100
Wnet · New York, NY · 2025
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$58,125
Pbs Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2024
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$40,000
National History Day · College Park, MD · 2025
Recognition awards for student documentary films
$40,000
National History Day · College Park, MD · 2024
Recognition awards for student documentary films
$32,500
Central Park Film Project · New York, NY · 2025
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education, fiscal sponsors
$25,000
Ray Lew Doc Llc · Hawthorne, CA · 2022
Library of congress/lavine/ken burns prize runner-up
$25,000
The Ciesla Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Library of congress/lavine/ken burns prize runner-up
$25,000
The Gardyn Llc · Park City, UT · 2022
Library of congress/lavine/ken burns prize runner-up
$20,000
National History Day · College Park, MD · 2023
Next generation angels
$20,000
National History Day · College Park, MD · 2022
Recognition awards for student documentary films
$15,000
Adams County Historical Society · Gettysburg, PA · 2025
Gettysburg film festival sponsors
$15,000
Middleburg Film Festival · Middleburg, VA · 2023
Support for production of documentary films, outreach, education
$15,000
Middleburg Film Festival · Middleburg, VA · 2022
Support for and recognition of documentary filmmakers
$10,000
Dcdox · Washington, DC · 2025
Dc/dox festival sponsors
$10,000
Adams County Historical Society · Gettysburg, PA · 2024
Gettysburg film festival sponsors
$10,000
Philadelphia Film Society · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Next generation angels
$9,398
Hindsight Film Festival · Savannah, GA · 2025
Hindsight film festival fiscal sponsors

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.