Louisiana · Nonprofit
New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc
New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,971 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($82,664). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $-16130
What New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc does
Mission
To encourage the appreciation of photography through exhibit opportunities and educational programs. To give amateur photographers opportunities to grow and share their talent and stories through photography. NOPA strives to be a cultural stimulus which fosters artistic and economic growth while preserving the rich and diverse photographic culture of New Orleans and the Southern region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We reach the entire photography community through website newsletters social media. We offer the opportunity to participate in photo exhibitions hands on workshops lectures lectures with professional photographers. We also offer the use of a fully equiped darkroom in our gallery to members and non-members.
$17,990 spent18% of program spendingGrants awards prizes to local artists through participation in juried exhibitions.
$4,500 spent4% of program spendingAnnually we offer the opportunity for amateur photographers to have their personal photography portfolios reviewed by professional photographers from around the world.
$77,841 spent78% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $100,331.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $12k to $24k (+103%).
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.
50% of New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $25k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 New Orleans Photo Alliance 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
New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 60% · 2019 62% · 2020 85% · 2021 52% · 2022 100% · 2023 41% — 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.
Where its funders are
54% of New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $71k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 New Orleans Photo Alliance 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc?
- New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,971 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($82,664). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $153,971 in grants to New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Orleans Photo Alliance Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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