Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH
WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Women Photograph does
Mission
Our mission is to shift the gender makeup of the photojournalism community and ensure that our industry's chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent. We are perticularly committed to centering the voices of women and nonbinary photographers of color, and pledge that more than half of our funding and opportunities will go to bipoc photographers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
1. Operate database that includes more than 1,000 independent documentary photographers based in more than 100 countries. 2. Operate an annual series of project grants, a year-long mentorship program, and annual skills-building workshop, and a travel fund to help women and nonbinary photographers access professional development opportunties.
$84,106 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,106.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $40k to $55k (+37%).
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.
93% of WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH’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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH’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.
Where its funders are
100% of WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH: 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 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH?
- WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH?
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN PHOTOGRAPH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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