· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Earth Alliance ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Photowings funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Photowings. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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