New York · Nonprofit
100cameras
100cameras (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,093 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($199,977). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $285k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $370k
- Net assets
- $59k
What 100cameras does
Mission
100cameras equips youth worldwide with tools to process and share their stories and experiences through photography. Our custom curriculum fosters emotional intelligence well-being resilience and community-building skills. Photography serves as a vehicle for self-expression connection and leadership development. The program platform is designed to be inclusive accessible and educational with options for implementation through local partnerships or individually with youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization offers two program platforms that utilize the 100cameras custom curriculum to equip youth with tools for self-expression and storytelling through photography: Extensive Programs: This model delivers in-depth classroom-based experiences in partnership with local organizations. Programs are led by local educators or volunteers who complete a training process in both the curriculum and implementation model. For programs where both local organizations and youth participants along with their guardians opt in youth photographs are made available for sale with 100% of the proceeds directed back to fund supplies for their local organizations supporting youth to see the tangible impact of their contribution. Online Workshop: This free online platform provides a library of turnkey activities designed for use by educators families or youth directly. It offers flexible access to photography-based learning experiences that can be implemented anywhere. Through both platforms youth learn to process their experiences express themselves creatively and share stories of their past present and future.
$198,539 spent$38,315 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $198,539.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $241k to $91k (−62%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of 100cameras’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Angela Popplewell
CEO
Board chair
Emily Schendel
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $35k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 100cameras’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
100cameras leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 100cameras.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 96% · 2021 81% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of 100cameras's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of 100cameras's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $155k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
100cameras runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like 100cameras
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 100cameras: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 100cameras?
- 100cameras (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,093 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($199,977). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 100cameras have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $370,093 in grants to 100cameras, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 100cameras?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $199,977 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 100cameras find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing