100Cameras
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264692506
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $285,412
- Expenses
- $234,120
- Assets
- $65,697
- Liabilities
- $7,166
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Angela Popplewell (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Angela Popplewell (CEO): $28,793 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
100cameras equips youth worldwide with tools to process and share their stories and experiences through photography. Our custom curriculum fosters emotional intelligence well-being resilience and community-building skills. Photography serves as a vehicle for self-expression connection and leadership development. The program platform is designed to be inclusive accessible and educational with options for implementation through local partnerships or individually with youth.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization offers two program platforms that utilize the 100cameras custom curriculum to equip youth with tools for self-expression and storytelling through photography: Extensive Programs: This model delivers in-depth classroom-based experiences in partnership with local organizations. Programs are led by local educators or volunteers who complete a training process in both the curriculum and implementation model. For programs where both local organizations and youth participants along with their guardians opt in youth photographs are made available for sale with 100% of the proceeds directed back to fund supplies for their local organizations supporting youth to see the tangible impact of their contribution. Online Workshop: This free online platform provides a library of turnkey activities designed for use by educators families or youth directly. It offers flexible access to photography-based learning experiences that can be implemented anywhere. Through both platforms youth learn to process their experiences express themselves creatively and share stories of their past present and future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $199K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.