New York · Nonprofit
VIDEO VOLUNTEERS
VIDEO VOLUNTEERS (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,533,260 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($625,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $578k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $378k
What Video Volunteers does
Mission
Video Volunteers's mission is to empower the world's poor or marginalized citizens to become active in the global information revolution as knowledge creators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research: studying the ways that marginalized citizens in the us and in other regions of the world are using social media to talk about positive social change and to put forward their needs and knowledge; studying the ways that certain communities, such as the homeless in the us, are able to gain visibility on the platforms themselves and how platform policies enable or hinder that.
$90,000 spent19% of program spendingContent sourcing: sourcing thousands of pieces of video content from hundreds of geographies where citizens live below the poverty line, and sharing that content on social media, in order to study how marginalized citizens can best use new technologies in order to share their knowledge with the world.
$273,280 spent58% of program spendingApp development: building prototypes for web apps through which development experts at the un level or academic researchers can tap into citizen insights.
$105,000 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $468,280.
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 2018 to 2019, from $148k to $320k (+116%).
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: 2020 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of VIDEO VOLUNTEERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
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
Jessica Kress Mayberry
CEO, director
Board chair
Davia Temin
Director/board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $14k → $522k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 VIDEO VOLUNTEERS’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
VIDEO VOLUNTEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 VIDEO VOLUNTEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 45% · 2019 76% · 2020 53% · 2021 28% · 2022 64% · 2023 96% — 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
55% of VIDEO VOLUNTEERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
74% of VIDEO VOLUNTEERS'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. $393k 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
VIDEO VOLUNTEERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding VIDEO VOLUNTEERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.
- Department of State$210k
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 VIDEO VOLUNTEERS
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 VIDEO VOLUNTEERS: 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 VIDEO VOLUNTEERS?
- VIDEO VOLUNTEERS (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,533,260 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($625,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIDEO VOLUNTEERS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,533,260 in grants to VIDEO VOLUNTEERS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIDEO VOLUNTEERS?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIDEO VOLUNTEERS 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.
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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 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing