Arizona · Nonprofit
Lights Camera Discover
Lights Camera Discover (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,707 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $424k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Lights Camera Discover does
Mission
Since its founding, Lights Camera Discover has empowered over 1,000 underprivileged youth by providing them with essential skills in digital arts and steam (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) fields. Through comprehensive curriculum that emphasizes creativity, teamwork, and job-readiness, we have maintained an 85% program completion rate across all workshops.In collaboration with schools and community organizations, 70% of participants have demonstrated improved academic performance in STEAM subjects, and 65% have pursued further education or career opportunities in related fields. LCD has successfully placed 20% of graduates in internships or entry-level positions within the digital arts and entertainment industries, paving the way for future leaders and innovators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025,services were consistent with those offered in 2024. Please see the note for 2024 below.In 2024, Lights Camera Discover Arizona proudly expanded its mission toempower youth through creative education and workforce development, makinga measurable impact across three additional new programs: the LCD print labcreation program, the sustainability through steam initiative, and ourdynamic anti-drug digital arts program.Through the LCD print lab creation program, participants learned hands-onskills in digital design and direct-to-film (dtf) printing, producingcustom shirts, stickers, and merchandise while gaining real-worldexperience in entrepreneurship, branding, and small business operations.Over 100 students completed the program, many launching their own smallproduct lines or contributing to school and community events with their creations.Our sustainability through steam initiative empowered youth to tackleenvironmental challenges with creativity and innovation. Studentscollaborated on eco-conscious media projects, upcycled materials for designwork, and developed campaigns promoting green habits in their schools andneighborhoods. This program not only fostered artistic…
$278,609 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $278,609.
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 2021 to 2022, from $166k to $55k (−67%).
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: 2021 17% · 2022 2% · 2024 17% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Lights Camera Discover’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 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $60k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Lights Camera Discover’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
Lights Camera Discover leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Lights Camera Discover.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 89% · 2023 83% — 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
25% of Lights Camera Discover's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
Lights Camera Discover draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Lights Camera Discover has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lights Camera Discover
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lights Camera Discover: 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 Lights Camera Discover?
- Lights Camera Discover (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,707 to it, the largest being NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lights Camera Discover have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $423,707 in grants to Lights Camera Discover, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lights Camera Discover?
- NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lights Camera Discover find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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