Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,325 to it, the largest being JOY OF GIVING SOMETHING INC ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $159k
What Photographic Resource Center Inc does
Mission
Education in photography.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Education: various books, lectures, exhibitions, and workshops are offered throughout the year. Six to eight exhibits are held each year, including the prc annual juried exhibition and the annual prc student exhibition. The prc also conducts themed "nights at the prc", providing an opportunity for photographers to share their work with peers.
$3,714 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,714.
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 $104k to $145k (+39%).
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.
80% of PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $214 → $48k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER 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
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
53% 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 PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2021 62% · 2022 62% · 2023 42% — 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
53% of PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER 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 $81k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$23k
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 PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER 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 Massachusetts
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 PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER 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 PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,325 to it, the largest being JOY OF GIVING SOMETHING INC ($80,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $172,325 in grants to PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- JOY OF GIVING SOMETHING INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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