New York · Nonprofit
MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION
MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,996,294 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($2,543,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Magnum Cultural Foundation does
Mission
Mentor the next generation of photographers and have impact on historical/contemporary photography
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Major program services include: providing financial support to photographers to document issues of local, national, or global concern before they reach crisis proportions, with a focus on subjects that have not received the attention they deserve; increasing the impact of documentary photography by connecting photographers and their work with nonprofit organizations and individuals committed to social change; training the next generation of image-makers and giving awards to outstanding young photographers committed to documentary work; and preserving and making accessible significant documentary collections.
$1,312,275 spentof which $374,669 as grants$16,250 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,312,275.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.0M to $5.2M (+32%).
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 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 4% · 2023 13% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION’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. 4 of the last 8 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
Kristen Lubben
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $60k → $772k.
16 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 funders by total. 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
MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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 26% · 2018 33% · 2019 44% · 2020 22% · 2021 38% · 2022 67% · 2023 32% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION'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
81% of MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION'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. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $94k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$94k
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 MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION
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
59%
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 MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: 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 MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION?
- MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,996,294 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($2,543,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $7,996,294 in grants to MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $2,543,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 63 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