New York · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,019,334 to it, the largest being THE GUNK FOUNDATION ($687,072). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Center for Photography at Woodstock does
Mission
The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) is a vital cultural hub for the Hudson Valley, a gathering place for critical dialogue and creative discovery in photography and visual culture. Our mission is to effect social and personal transformations through innovative and inspiring programs that explore photography as an adept medium for understanding ourselves, our communities, and our society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Every year cpws exhibitions reach an audience of around 10,000 visitors. Emphasis is placed on representing a diverse range of voices and to engage the public in a meaningful dialogue about photography and the topics it can communicate as an art form.
$571,781 spent47% of program spendingCpw offers educational programming for all levels of visual thinkers, from beginners to professionals, through workshops, courses, lectures, and symposia. This year, cpw will provide over 300 hours of instruction, most of which will be offered for free to students and other residents of kingston and the surrounding region. This programming will instruct students not only in the practical and technical aspects of photography but also in the history and aesthetics of photography and visual media. Each week, there is meet the artist lecture series. There are also selected panel discussions related to other programming.
$281,771 spent$1,200 earned by the program23% of program spendingCpws one-of-a-kind artist-in-residence program, woodstock air, was created in 1999 to support photography-based artists of color and to expand the dialogue around diversity, race and identity in the context of social justice. Over 160 artists and writers have participated in this workspace residency to date. Cpws professional workspaces include a state-of-the-art digital media lab and assorted studio spaces. The facilities address the professional and creative needs of the growing number of artists, who live and work in the extended hudson valley region. The lab and studio space are available for hourly rental and make equipment accessible not otherwise available in the area.
$249,584 spent$114,343 earned by the program21% of program spendingEvents include the vision awards gala and the annual cpw photobook & zine fair.
$105,834 spent$13,350 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,208,970.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $3.5M (+150%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 6% · 2019 15% · 2020 10% · 2021 19% · 2022 7% · 2023 28% · 2024 25% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Brian Wallis
Executive director
Board chair
Clinton Cargill
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $99k → $390k.
3 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK’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
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 62% · 2019 60% · 2020 79% · 2021 56% · 2022 61% · 2023 50% — 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
55% of CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
88% of CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $283k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$180k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$71k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$32k
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 CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK: 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 CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK?
- CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK (New York) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,019,334 to it, the largest being THE GUNK FOUNDATION ($687,072). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,019,334 in grants to CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK?
- THE GUNK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $687,072 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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