Photo Legacy Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454181170
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2124637040
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,366
- Expenses
- $62,192
- Assets
- $7,174
- Liabilities
- $9,977
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY ENGEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MARY ENGEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT GURBO (SECRETARY)
- ERNEST LONDA (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide information, resources, and education to assist photographers manage their archives.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support photographers with their archives to preserve, document, and exhibit historic photography. The foundation provides a public forum and online resource network focused on the business of photography.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.39; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.