· Private foundation
Photowings
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $576k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VII FOUNDATION INC | $174,547 |
| PHOTOVILLE | $170,000 |
| CATCHLIGHT | $150,000 |
| EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION | $81,500 |
| THE EVERYDAY PROJECTS | $32,968 |
| W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCatchLight7× · 2017–2024 · $587k · revenue +286%
- UPUnited Photo Industries Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $466k · revenue +53%
- EAEDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $196k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- STSILVER THREAD LTDone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
PhotoWork Foundation advances photography and supports the education of photographers working in the post-documentary tradition through events, digital media, and grantmaking.
Providing platforms that expand, inspire, educate and connect the international photography community. dedicated to increasing awareness of our society through photography, providing opportunities to committed photographers through…
IFP serves the photography community by supporting projects, books and other photographic and documentary activities.
Our mission is to shift the gender makeup of the photojournalism community and ensure that our industry's chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent. we are perticularly committed to centering the voices of…
SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.
Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.
To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.
Nurturing high quality, diverse fine-art photography by organizing workshops,exhibitions and competitions.
The foundation (fep)'s mission is to produce unique and significant museum-quality exhibitions of photography, and to circulate these exhibitions around the world. fep also provides complementary educational and publishing programs to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Everyday Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is W Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CatchLight ↗
- Who funds United Photo Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL NOMADS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFTERMATH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERYDAY PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Walden School of Liberal Arts ↗
- Who funds ALEXIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Earth Alliance ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Photowings funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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