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CAMERA NEWS INC

CAMERA NEWS INC (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,614,076 to it, the largest being The New York Community Trust ($214,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.2M
Revenue FY2025
30
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
11/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%

Against its field

CAMERA NEWS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve19.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($735k) Expenses 100 ($719k) Net assets 100 ($259k)2021 Revenue 181 ($1.3M) Expenses 134 ($962k) Net assets 133 ($344k)2022 Revenue 223 ($1.6M) Expenses 207 ($1.5M) Net assets 177 ($458k)2023 Revenue 237 ($1.7M) Expenses 168 ($1.2M) Net assets 307 ($794k)2024 Revenue 218 ($1.6M) Expenses 133 ($956k) Net assets 414 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 168 ($1.2M) Expenses 171 ($1.2M) Net assets 424 ($1.1M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (168)Expenses (171)Net assets (424)Peer revenue range

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.

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2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 13% · 2024 16% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of CAMERA NEWS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
20
$371k
21
$150k
22
$539k
23
$647k
24
$6k
25
20
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $2k → $347k.

8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Camera News Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CAMERA NEWS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of CAMERA NEWS 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

CAMERA NEWS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

67% 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 CAMERA NEWS INC.

13%
largest funder
36%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2019 53% · 2020 70% · 2021 23% · 2022 40% · 2023 62%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

20% of CAMERA NEWS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

CAMERA NEWS INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
KY
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $719k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding CAMERA NEWS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $620k on record.

Federal$620k
grants $620kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$320k
  • Department of the Interior$293k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$7k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CAMERA NEWS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMERA NEWS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CAMERA NEWS INC?
CAMERA NEWS INC (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,614,076 to it, the largest being The New York Community Trust ($214,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAMERA NEWS INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,614,076 in grants to CAMERA NEWS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAMERA NEWS INC?
The New York Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $214,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAMERA NEWS INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing