Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,972 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($286,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $326k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $660k
What Silver Eye Center for Photography does
Mission
The Silver Eye Center for Photography is the region's only nonprofit arts organization with an exclusive commitment to photography. The mission is to communicate the value and significance of photographic images as vital forms of creative expression and (seeh sch o)(continued from part iii, line 1)as a force that shapes and influences our diverse values, histories, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organized and presented several exibitions for the fiscal year. These exhibitions feature emerging and mid-career artists from pittsburgh and across the u.s. As well as internationally known artists and iconic figures in the field.
$102,752 spent$17,887 earned by the program37% of program spendingA yearly roster of school, youth, family and adult workshops, classes, tours, lectures and events complement the exibitions and foster arts-based learning as well as opportunities for lifelong creativity, cultural participation and professional development. Admission to exhibitions and many public programs is free.
$37,446 spent$7,297 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$136,624 spent$77,336 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $276,822.
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 2020 to 2021, from $783k to $1.0M (+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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 16% · 2021 6% · 2022 12% · 2023 7% · 2024 13% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY’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. 4 of the last 9 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
Hsu Leo
Executive director
Board chair
Gyves Tim
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $234k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY’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
SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 49% · 2019 42% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 36% · 2023 58% — 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
36% of SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
69% of SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY: 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 SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY?
- SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,972 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($286,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,588,972 in grants to SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $286,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 24 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