Indiana · Nonprofit
AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC
AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,016 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Aurora Photocenter Inc does
Mission
Aurora photocenter's mission is to support visual artists working in photography through exhibitions, residencies, workshops, visiting artist talks, and access to creative tools. As the only nonprofit in indiana devoted exclusively to photography, aurora is an essential hub for the medium in our arts community. Aurora also serves as a bridge between local artists and the greater photographic community, with a regional, national, and international scope. Aurora is passionate about photography's emotional and social power as an art medium in its own right.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Aurora's exhibitions highlight emerging work by local artists and foster new ideas, inspiration, and connections to our arts community by featuring the work of internationally exhibiting, award winning photographers. Aurora held 12 exhibitions in 2025; the exhibitions were viewed by over 6,000 people.
$10,438 spent11% of program spendingAurora's workshops introduce artists to new skills and ways of working, providing access to ever-changing technology in a collaborative environment. Aurora held over 35 workshops in 2025; the workshops served over 150 artists.
$4,160 spent4% of program spendingAurora's residencies offer invaluable opportunities for artistic development and exchange and highlight our indianapolis arts community as a center of creative production. Aurora hosted 6 residents in 2025.
$10,000 spent10% of program spendingAurora's public-access darkroom and digital imaging area offer access to creative tools for the production of images from camera to print.aurora's visiting artist talks keep local artists connected to the current dialog on photography beyond our community.
$73,691 spent75% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,289.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $31k to $69k (+124%).
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.
85% of AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $19k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC’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
AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
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 AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC: 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 AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC?
- AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,016 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $140,016 in grants to AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC?
- Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AURORA PHOTOCENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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