Redford Center Inc
San Francisco, CA · EIN 46-4549706. Reported 93 grants totalling $17.8M to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Redford Center Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 45% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- 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 $38,800. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $143,450; the smallest was $5,520 and the largest $3,837,500. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Picture Ranch LLC | Ojai, CA | $7,921,752 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Groundswell Movie LLC | Rushville, OH | $3,366,471 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Culture Crossing LLC | Larkspur, CA | $704,798 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bee Film LLC | Ojai, CA | $626,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Swiftwater Films LLC | Olympia, WA | $538,997 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| We Are the Land LLC | Marina Del Rey, CA | $503,975 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Little Indian Girl LLC | Sherman Oaks, CA | $492,301 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Green New Deal Documentary LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $466,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Starhouse Media LLC | Fairfax, CA | $380,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Prettier in the Dark LLC | New York, NY | $375,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barrelmaker Productions LLC | Bozeman, MT | $301,657 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Overpass Films Inc | Oakland, CA | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Structure Films LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $142,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Thunderheart Media Inc | Gallatin Gtwy, MT | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Refashionable LLC | Knoxville, TN | $110,198 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pete Mcbride Productions | Basalt, CO | $96,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clenched Fist Productions LLC | Carolina, PR | $74,975 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rls Films LLC | Miami, FL | $74,975 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Local Video LLC | Tulsa, OK | $72,818 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Harvest Documentary LLC | San Francisco, CA | $70,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Formidable Entities LLC | Chicago, IL | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lnolhllcalexandra Norris | Washington, DC | $56,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Two Row Productions LLC | Hogansburg, NY | $54,618 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Bear Creative LLC | Boulder, CO | $46,859 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| John Angiulosurfing Saves LLC | West Babylon, NY | $44,367 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gistory LLC | New York, NY | $41,954 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Encompass Productions LLC | Truckee, CA | $41,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Universe Creative LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| What Took You So Long Inc | Baltimore, MD | $37,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pecos Pictures LLC | Atlanta, GA | $35,807 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Julianne Parkerhamako Films LLC | Portland, OR | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tal Productions LLC | New York, NY | $28,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blind Films Llcmaria Karpoukhina | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elivia Shawlong Take Films LLC | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fire Frog Media LLC | Provo, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Idle Wild Films Inc | Salt Lake City, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reniqua Simone Allen-Lamphere | Jersey City, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sea Change Films LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sound Off LLC | Miami, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| To Use a Mountain LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Speculative Films LLC | Oakland, CA | $23,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 40OZ Films LLC | Livonia, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Animadocs | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emergent City LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Flying Kite Motion Pictures LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kontent Films and Editorial Inc | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Megan Alldis | Pacific Grove, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Slow Shark LLC | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| On the Wave Productions LLC | Santa Barbara, CA | $17,020 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oaklead LLC | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Black List LLC | Encino, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mark Benjaminbrick City Tv LLC | New York, NY | $14,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stayers USA LLC | New Orleans, LA | $13,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womenswork LLC | Spokane, WA | $10,227 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stephen Smithenduring Ice LLC | Hope Valley, RI | $9,346 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Enduring Ice LLC | Hope Valley, RI | $9,301 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jason Jaacks | Portsmouth, RI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pandion Institute | Joseph, OR | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
19 of 58 (33%) 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.
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.
- Bee Film LLC
GRANT FOR FILM PRODUCTION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2 of 58 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $2,326,123 | $45,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $2,702,418 | $28,200 |
| 2023 | 16 | $5,404,326 | $76,370 |
| 2024 | 32 | $7,317,199 | $25,000 |
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
64% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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 $38,800 -- 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 California.
- 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 Redford Center 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 32 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: Po Box 29144, San Francisco, CA, 94129.
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