KINGSTON — They aren’t just out to make money — they want to make money for those who need it most.

The masterminds behind Grease Paint Productions LLC, Don Hill and Earl Williams, initially started making films to help raise money for their non-profit group, Caring Clowns International, and to document its events. The group of professional clowns, of which Hill is a founding member, entertains children and adults in orphanages, hospitals and schools around the world.

The non-profit has helped raise more than $30,000 for other non-profits, including Prosthetics Outreach Foundation and Helping and Loving Orphans (HALO).

Now, the company, entering its third year, wants to expand its clientele by offering various types of video services, with hopes to be able to give funding where it can do the most good. The idea is to help non-profits offset advertising costs with any sort of video or production work needed.

“We will work with your budget,” Williams said.

“Because more often than not, non-profits have little or no funds to get it out,” Hill added.

Grease Paint Productions services include archiving old footage, video production, documentaries, sports profiles, promotional spots, and recording special events such as retirements, weddings and sporting events.

“It kind of cleans out your closet of your old videos,” Williams said.

They have their own studio, Studio C, (“C” meaning Hill’s bedroom closet) but for more sound-sensitive projects, they have access to a professional sound studios.

“We do a little bit of everything,” Williams said.

“We’re doing what we want to do rather than what we have to do,” Hill said, which, he added, is to “capture the passion of non-profits.”

Hill worked in audio and video production in the Navy for 24 years. When he retired in 1993, he went into the professional clown business and has been there ever since.

Williams has done post production for various projects, from small independent films to NBC, QVC, Showtime and HBO.

And since Grease Paint started in 2002, the partners have completed several hundred projects — in 2004, they did 75 alone.

“We’re competitive with the Seattle prices without doing the Seattle drive,” Hill said.

Locally, the production company has created films and documentaries for the Seattle-based Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, PeaceTrees Vietnam, Radio Bainbridge Institute, Bainbridge Island’s Christmas in the Country, as well as regular production work for local high school sporting events. They will be doing a simulcast at Key Arena on Jan. 23 for the Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap High School boys’ basketball game.