Perspective Fund: Organizations Grant

The Perspective Fund is dedicated to transforming storytelling into a tool for social change, focusing on equity and justice. They provide financial support and resources to help storytellers and organizations amplify their impact in the documentary field. With an emphasis on collaboration, they aim to strengthen the documentary impact ecosystem, ensuring that historically excluded creators and audiences are prioritized. Their funding encompasses general operating support and project-specific initiatives, fostering a more inclusive narrative landscape.

NOTE: Submit the Letter of Inquiry Form to share information about your work in order to be considered for funding opportunities. Currently, full grant proposals for funding are accepted by invitation only.
Perspective provides storytellers and journalists with the funding, tools, and strategy-driven support to tell stories about equity and justice that generate action.
Approach
The way a story is told is essential to its impact. That’s why Perspective supports projects in a variety of mediums.
Field-building is critical for an inclusive and sustainable industry for impact-oriented documentaries. We fund and collaborate with individuals and organizations across fields and mediums to ensure holistic support from narrative development to audience engagement. These include artists, movement leaders, researchers, funders, journalists, impact practitioners, and more.
If you are working on a media project that advances social and economic inclusion, we’d love to hear from you.
Organizational Support
We provide funding to support those who are critical to the infrastructure of the documentary film impact ecosystem. We seek to build a robust network of organizations, initiatives and thought leaders in the documentary impact space who make the work more equitable, effective and sustainable.
Funding Areas
We offer two primary areas of funding:
Project SupportTo catalyze specific programs or initiatives that are focused on amplifying impact focused films and the documentary impact field.
How We Approach Funding
A robust network of longstanding and emergent organizations, initiatives and thought leaders are critical to the documentary impact ecosystem. They work in concert to build, sustain and evolve the infrastructure, knowledge base and terms of engagement for members of this field.
What We Fund
Research to learn and identify field conditions, key gaps, and opportunitiesProjects and organizations that demonstrate creative and strategic approaches to documentary production, distribution and impactInitiatives that increase longitudinal opportunities for funds and professional development for historically excluded creators, strategists and leaders in the documentary impact spaceOrganizations and initiatives that address systemic barriers to the entry and advancement of all impact-driven creators, strategists and leadersField-led organizing and collaborative initiatives that advance the collective efforts of the documentary impact space