Independent Feature Project Inc
Brooklyn, NY · EIN 13-3118525. Reported 31 grants totalling $1,162,742 to 31 organizations across tax years 2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Independent Feature Project Inc, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A31) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 17% 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.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $26,250. Half of what it reported fell between $14,346 and $47,626; the smallest was $5,310 and the largest $193,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Boyle LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $193,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Real Talkies LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $70,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Daughter One Productions Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $70,349 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| An Island Film LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $67,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Narrative Uprising LLC | San Francisco, CA | $65,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Breakthru Films Inc | New York, NY | $61,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Katha Films Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $51,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Resentment Film LLC | Schenectady, NY | $47,626 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mighty Squawk Productions | Somerville, MA | $45,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neuman Films LLC | Westhampton Beach, NY | $44,332 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| One Story Up LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $42,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Madpix Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $39,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Red Book Films LLC | Portland, OR | $39,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| College Material Productions LLC | Washington, DC | $38,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Season of Rain LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Between the Rivers Productions LLC | Montclair, NJ | $26,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Akelo Media Corp | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Sun Films LLC | Little Rock, AR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Doctor Bird Studios Inc | Miramar, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shango Light Productions Inc | Albany, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida State University Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Solifilm Productions | Chicago, IL | $15,547 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wonderfilm LLC | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Femlab Films | Pasadena, CA | $14,346 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sky Princess Studios | Thousand Oaks, CA | $10,709 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Green Fuse Films Inc | New York, NY | $10,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lady Dynamo Productions LLC | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Quispe Warmi LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $7,717 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Film Emporium Inc | Larchmont, NY | $7,335 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vast Productions USA Inc | New York, NY | $7,021 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blind River LLC | Paradise Valley, AZ | $5,310 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
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.
- Jamie Boyle LLC
FISCAL SPONSOREE - ANONYMOUS SISTER - Real Talkies LLC
FISCAL SPONSOREE - "OUR DAUGHTERS" - Daughter One Productions Inc
FISCAL SPONSOREE - THE ANIMATED MIND OF OLIVER SACKS - An Island Film LLC
FISCAL SPONSOREE - "AN ISLAND / MOUTH OF THE BULL" - The Narrative Uprising LLC
FISCAL SPONSOREE - "BLACK GIRL IN PARIS" - Breakthru Films Inc
FISCAL SPONSOREE - "PAROLE PREP"
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 1 of 31 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.
Where its money goes
57% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $26,250 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 Independent Feature Project Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 35 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: 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
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