Michigan · Nonprofit
Photographers Without Borders Inc
Photographers Without Borders Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,909 to it, the largest being HONOR THE EARTH ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $-15891
What Photographers Without Borders Inc does
Mission
Empowering grassroots NGOs by connecting volunteer photographers with those organizations
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Impact, strategy and innovation--the impact, strategy and innovation team at pwb provides strategic, administration and tactical support to drive priority impact work globally and accelerate solutions by leveraging innovation, research, and volunteerism.
$0 spentThe flagship pwb program continues to drive global impact at the intersection of philanthropy and multimedia, in conjunction with international non-governmental organizations (ngos) that seek to fulfill the 2030 un sustainable development goals. In 2020 we:1) helped connect 30 photographers/videographers to 30 ngos, foundations and fund international projects in 18 countries;2) processed one grant, which funded operations costs;3) facilitated $89,500 for global projects and coordination
$0 spentPublic art/exhibits, pwb film series, pwb school, pwb magazine, - creates opportunity to educate, inspire, and beautify public and online spaces. We provide opportunities for photographers and videographers to publish their work on our platform, thereby amplifying voices of the ngos we work with.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $27k to $185k (+593%).
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.
100% of Photographers Without Borders Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $48k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Photographers Without Borders 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
Photographers Without Borders Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Photographers Without Borders Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — 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
Photographers Without Borders Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59 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
Photographers Without Borders Inc's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Photographers Without Borders 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 Michigan
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Photographers Without Borders 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 Photographers Without Borders Inc?
- Photographers Without Borders Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,909 to it, the largest being HONOR THE EARTH ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Photographers Without Borders Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,909 in grants to Photographers Without Borders Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Photographers Without Borders Inc?
- HONOR THE EARTH is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Photographers Without Borders Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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