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Doug Pensinger Photography Fund

The Doug Pensinger Photography Fund (DPPF) supports emerging sports photographers by creating a community that develops their skill and vision. Each year, early professional sports photographers are encouraged to apply for career-supporting grants and mentorships. No application fee is charged to reduce barriers to participating. The…

$54k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,898
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
OR
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

Individual grant recipient$6,898
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500

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About Doug Pensinger Photography Fund

How much does Doug Pensinger Photography Fund give?
Doug Pensinger Photography Fund reported 12 grants totaling $54,398 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Doug Pensinger Photography Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (74%), Education (13%).
Does Doug Pensinger Photography Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Doug Pensinger Photography Fund based?
Doug Pensinger Photography Fund is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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