New York · Nonprofit
LENS ON LIFE PROJECT
LENS ON LIFE PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,032 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,383). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Lens on Life Project does
Mission
Lens on life supports photography and computer literacy training for youth around the world. By cooperating with local organizations lens on life builds spaces to help students overcome trauma grow artistically and gain skills to enter the global marketplace
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Implementation of photography and computer training program with youth in a support function with CAMME-DRC in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
$34,653 spentof which $30,649 as grants36% of program spendingImplementation of photography and computer training program with youth in a support function with Questscope in Jordan
$14,790 spentof which $12,795 as grants15% of program spendingImplementation of photography and computer literacy workshops with local community organization that hosts internally displaced youth in Cameroon
$17,188 spentof which $9,715 as grants18% of program spendingImplementation of photography and computer literacy workshops with local community organization that hosts refugee youth in Kurdistan
$18,205 spentof which $14,696 as grants19% of program spendingImplementation of photography and computer literacy workshops with local community organizat ion that help at-risk youth in the Bronx NYC
$11,789 spentof which $9,715 as grants12% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,625.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $62k to $94k (+51%).
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.
99% of LENS ON LIFE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LENS ON LIFE PROJECT’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
LENS ON LIFE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 LENS ON LIFE PROJECT.
“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
LENS ON LIFE PROJECT draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
LENS ON LIFE PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LENS ON LIFE PROJECT
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.
Public support
85%
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 LENS ON LIFE PROJECT: 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 LENS ON LIFE PROJECT?
- LENS ON LIFE PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,032 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($13,383). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LENS ON LIFE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $31,032 in grants to LENS ON LIFE PROJECT.
- Who is the largest funder of LENS ON LIFE PROJECT?
- GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,383 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LENS ON LIFE PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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