- Revenue 2024
- $1,316,188
- Expenses 2024
- $1,901,122
Program services were 69.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A40
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 59 E 4TH ST STE 7W
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
MENTOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PHOTOGRAPHERS AND HAVE IMPACT ON HISTORICAL/CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
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MAJOR PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDE: PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO PHOTOGRAPHERS TO DOCUMENT ISSUES OF LOCAL, NATIONAL, OR GLOBAL CONCERN BEFORE THEY REACH CRISIS PROPORTIONS, WITH A FOCUS ON SUBJECTS THAT HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE; INCREASING THE IMPACT OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY BY CONNECTING PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THEIR WORK WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS COMMITTED TO SOCIAL CHANGE; TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF IMAGE-MAKERS AND GIVING AWARDS TO OUTSTANDING YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS COMMITTED TO DOCUMENTARY WORK; AND PRESERVING AND MAKING ACCESSIBLE SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIONS.
Expenses $1,312,275 · Grants $374,669 · Revenue $16,250
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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KRISTEN LUBBEN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $159,817
- From this org
- $154,413
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $5,404
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $145,149
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $9,264
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $5,404
- Filer's total
- $159,817
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SUSAN MEISELAS
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7.5
-
PAMELA CHEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
DIANA COHN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
CLAIRE DAVIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.75
-
LISA GARRISON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
SOHRAB HURA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
MARK JACKSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.75
-
JONATHAN KARTT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
ELLIS REED
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
ORVILLE SCHELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
CYNTHIA YOUNG-EBERSTADT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
ALICE SACHS ZIMET
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
RAFAL MILACH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
PETER VAN AGTMAEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,316,188
- Expenses
- $1,901,122
- Contributions
- $1,276,982
- Grants paid
- $374,669
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,177,866
- Expenses
- $1,764,733
- Contributions
- $1,152,188
- Grants paid
- $323,747
-
2022
- Revenue
- $2,696,577
- Expenses
- $1,515,996
- Contributions
- $2,650,964
- Grants paid
- $320,909
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,140,102
- Expenses
- $1,059,905
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,963,753
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,047,172
- Expenses
- $1,107,438
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,814,068
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,170,021
- Expenses
- $1,255,343
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,736,440
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,169,708
- Expenses
- $1,309,443
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,833,173
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,288,144
- Expenses
- $1,039,491
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,936,567
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,260,702
- Expenses
- $1,187,576
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,860,245
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,459,633
- Expenses
- $1,084,388
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,630,290
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,598,656
- Expenses
- $1,783,551
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,495,709
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,513,772
- Expenses
- $966,221
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,438,441
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $612,495
- Assets (EOY)
- $873,825
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2007
- Tax period
- 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007
- Principal officer
- Susan Meiselas
- Mailing address
- 151 West 25th StreetNew York NY 10001
- Website
- www.magnumfoundation.org
- Doing business as
- The Magnum Foundation
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.
Grants made
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$27,000
2023 Fellowship
-
$25,000
2024 PHOTOGRAPHERS EDUCATION
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$24,337
2022 Fellowship Grant
-
$11,000
2023 Fellowship
-
$9,520
2022 Fellowship Grant
-
$7,000
2022 Fellowship Grant
Grants received
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$50,000
2023 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
$40,000
2024 HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
-
$25,000
2022 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
$25,000
2023 HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
-
$20,000
2022 HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
-
$15,000
2023 General operating support
-
2022 ARTS/CULTURE/HUMANITIES
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.