Fiscal Sponsorship
Are you looking to partner with a nonprofit Fiscal Sponsor that you trust to support your artistic vision and efforts for a current documentary project?
Through this initiative, we offer individual artists our non-profit tax-exempt status, administrative services, extensive fundraising and grant writing experience, along with seasoned knowledge of the field to provide easy to follow guidance and support. We champion projects at any stage of production that align with our mission to expand the field of documentary art.
How We Support
We make space for you to focus on your creative work and offer our expertise to handle the rest. We have fine tuned administrative and financial systems in place to assure that nothing falls through the cracks and to easily walk you through this process if it’s your first time, or you hand off these tasks and preserve your focus. Our small size allows us to attend to your needs personally, and be nimble and flexible as your project develops.
Cinema on the Edge, Karin Chien, Shelly Kraicer, and J.P. Sniadecki
What We Provide
The ability for individual artists to seek and receive grants or tax-deductible donations
Financial management for accepted funds including paying vendors, handling deposits and withdrawals for your granted funds
Hosting, creating and managing individual crowdfunding campaigns
Sending donors their proof of tax exempt donations along with thank you letters
Notifying project directors of current funding opportunities
Submitting grant applications
Trusted relationships with experts in the field with pre-negotiated fees with vetted accountants, lawyers, and other industry consultants
Consultations throughout every stage of production
Empty Metal, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer
FAQs + Eligibility
Are there restrictions on the project subject matter?
The project must align with UnionDocs’ mission to support documentary art and must not be construed as propaganda. We will not accept projects whose main goal is to support the participation in, or intervention in any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.
What is crowdfunding all about?
Our crowdfunding page lets you launch a campaign where people can make tax-deductible donations to your project. It’s cheaper than kickstarter and we can customize it to adjust the goals, change the language at any time, make updates, etc. We can also accept donations via check that can manually be added to the total amount on the campaign page.
Visit Crowdfunding Page
Sponsored Projects
The projects we’ve supported have received funding from some of the most exciting and competitive funders in the field including Sundance Institute, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult Film Fund, Cinereach, The Fledgling Fund, The LEF Foundation, and Open Society Foundation. Our applications to New York State Council of the Arts Independent Artists grants are regularly awarded. We have been delighted to celebrate screenings, awards, and streaming contracts for supported projects at Berlinale, Sundance, IDFA, Rotterdam, Art of the Real, Tribeca Film Festival, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and more.
