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New York · Public charity

Lens on Life Project

Lens on life supports photography and computer literacy training for youth around the world. By cooperating with local organizations lens on life builds spaces to help students overcome trauma grow artistically and gain skills to enter the global marketplace

$41k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$40,474
Largest grant, FY2020
$40,474
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$70k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Camme USA$40,4741n/a
Questscope Ltd$87110%

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About Lens on Life Project

How much does Lens on Life Project give?
Lens on Life Project reported 2 grants totaling $41,345 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Lens on Life Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are International (100%).
Who are Lens on Life Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Camme USA ($40k), Questscope Ltd ($871).
Where is Lens on Life Project based?
Lens on Life Project is based in NY.

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 2 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $82k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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