2025-11-17T13:52:38-08:00 2024-12-31 933705160 GuzmanGray 3200 Bristol St Ste 640 Costa Mesa CA 92626 990EZ 2024-01-01 202740495 THE AFTERMATH PROJECT INC AFTE 3238421331 4900 GLENABYN DR LOS ANGELES CA 90065 JOAN MORGENSTERN President 2025-11-17 true true JOHN C DAHLIN P01564445 5624980997 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X WWW.THEAFTERMATHPROJECT.ORG X X 38270 X 38230 6 0 0 0 0 34 38270 64500 58193 3083 487 37994 164257 -125987 201515 75528 X 194354 67511 7161 8017 201515 75528 201515 75528 THE AFTERMATH PROJECT IS COMMITTED TO TELLING THE OTHER HALF OF THE STORY OF CONFLICT - THE STORY OF WHAT IT TAKES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO LEARN TO LIVE AGAIN, TO REBUILD DESTROYED LIVES AND HOMES, TO RESTORE CIVIL SOCIETIES, TO ADDRESS THE LINGERING WOUNDS OF WAR WHILE STRUGGLING TO CREATE NEW AVENUES OF PEACE. THE AFTERMATH PROJECT HOLDS A YEARLY GRANT COMPETITION OPEN TO WORKING PHOTOGRAPHERS WORLDWIDE COVERING THE AFTERMATH OF CONFLICT. IN ADDITION, THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH UNIVERSITIES, PHOTOGRAPHY INSTITUTIONS AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, THE PROJECT SEEKS TO BROADEN THE PUBLICS UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRUE COST OF WAR AND THE REAL PRICE OF PEACE THROUGH INTERNATIONAL TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH IN COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS. 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Our programming includes three main pillars: We hold a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermaths of conflict. We challenge the medias tendency to cover war and conflict only until the violence ends, and also work with universities, photographic institutions and nonprofit organizations to help broaden the publics understanding of the true cost of war and the real price of peace. Finally, we support visual literacy education by offering a curriculum and set of lesson plans based on the photography projects that we have supported via our grants. The Aftermath Project (TAP) has historically received strong financial support from the public, and public support has always exceeded 10%. A viewing of the percentages of our total donations received from public sources from 2019-2022 show that well over a third of our revenue came from the public in any given year during that span:2019 - 66.79%2020 - 64.22%2021 - 53.27%2022 - 46.02% 2023 - 32.24% Thanks to large donations in 2023 that covered much of our operating expenses through the following year, TAP did not undertake a major fundraising campaign in 2024. However, in 2024, TAP received $24,000 in grant funding from an unaffiliated donor an amount that triples the $7,500 total we received that year from disqualified donors/board members. We also received donations from six individual small donors in 2024 whose gifts ranged in amount from $5 to $5,000. TAP maintains a continuous and bona fide program for soliciting funds from the general public and unaffiliated grant making organizations. TAP has always accepted donations from individuals, and our homepage has a permanent support link that gives the public a convenient way to donate to our program. In 2025, we established a new partnership with Infinite Giving in order to accept gifts in the form of stock, crypto, and other non-cash donations in addition to the cash donations we have always welcomed.Prior to 2023, the Aftermath Project has received grant funding from unaffiliated funding sources such as The Open Society Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, Photowings, the Compton Foundation, The Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.The composition of TAPs board of directors is consistent with the public charity model and represents the broad interest of the public of the public in its mission. At the close of 2024, the Aftermath Projects board of directors consisted of six voting directors, none of whom are related to or have close business ties to each other and all of whom are recognized for their professional credentials relevant to TAPs mission as well as for their professional leadership and vision. The board included Sara Terry, TAPs founder and director, and a Guggenheim Fellow in photography and accomplished documentary film director; Sue Lee, the retired Executive Director of the Chinese Historical Society of America; John Edwin Mason, a writer, curator, and photographer who recently retired from his professorship at the University of Virginia; Tom Neff, a producer or co-producer of six Broadway plays; Joan Morgenstern, the founding president of Photo Forum, the support group for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Photography Collection and a former President of the Board of Houston Center for Photography; and Amy Yenkin, an independent producer and editor with more than 25 years of experience in social issue documentary photography, arts and social change, philanthropy, nonprofit management, and strategic planning. In 2025, TAP added Pattie Sanford Roberts, an accomplished photographer and stage producer, to the board. Aside from Sara Terry, who received a salary for her role as TAPs executive director until her unexpected death in October, 2025, board members are not paid. TAPs programs are directly and continuously accessible to the general public. Since 2007, TAP has offered a definitive grant for photography projects that deal with the aftermath of armed conflict anywhere in the world. All our grants are open to the public; anyone can apply. There is no application fee. The grant is not limited by aesthetic style or even to documentary photography conceptual photographic works are also considered. In 2024, one winner received a cash grant of $25,000 while a first finalist received a $5,000 award. Three other photographers were also named finalists. These finalists may receive support upon request in the form of consultations on their projects or other career questions, recommendation letters for other opportunities, etc. In an increasingly difficult arts and media market, receiving an Aftermath Project grant or even being named a finalist can be a transformative achievement for a photographers career one that allows them to complete an ambitious body of work and provides relief from financial stress. We also provide general feedback to all applicants, and specific feedback and encouragement to applicants who made it to the final round of judging but were not selected to as winners or finalists. This personal touch is extremely rare in the realm of photography and arts grant-making. For the last several years, we have also offered office hours to potential applicants via Zoom, dedicating time each day for a week during the application cycle for photographers to discuss their questions about the grant, their projects and applications (in addition to our availability to answer these kinds of questions over email). These office hours are open for anyone to participate, and are a valuable learning resource for photographers regardless of the depth of their grant application experience.In nearly 20 years of offering these grants, no person has ever won twice. Fewer than five have been named finalists more than once; only one former finalist later won the grant. In each case of repeat finalists, the photographers were recognized for applications for new projects we are very intentional in using our limited finalist and winner spots to recognize as many deserving photographers as possible. Since 2021, we have offered a second grant program with a more narrow focus on the United States. Between 2021 and 2025, we distributed $225,000 to photographers five grant winners receiving $25,000 each, and 25 finalists receiving $5,000 each. Grant winners and finalists are selected by a judging panel each year that is entirely separate from TAPs board of directors. Different judges are invited each year, and in years when we offer two separate grants (as we did from 2021 to 2025) there are different judges on each panel. Judging panels are generally composed of accomplished photographers, including past TAP grant winners, newspaper and magazine photo editors, museum curators, and other experts from the field of photography. A project-specific advisory board separate from the TAP board of directors oversaw the second, USA-focused grant offered between 2021-2025. This advisory board included a New York Times photo editor; a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and photo editor; the co-director of Photoville, an annual public photography exhibit and festival; and an academic specializing in the history of photography (John Edwin Mason joined the TAP board of directors at the close of this five-year grant cycle). Grant judges and the advisory panel volunteer their service and are never paid. All of the work created by TAP grant winners is made available to the public. TAP makes an effort to engage the public through exhibitions, public lectures and publications. TAP has a traveling exhibit based on the work of the grant winners and finalists that is managed by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and has been installed in universities, museums and public libraries across the country. The How We Rebuild exhibit will continue to tour through early 2028. We have published nine books including the work of grant winners and finalists, and are preparing a tenth for publication in the near future. Photographic work of prior grant winners is also available on TAPs public web page. TAP also offers a series of visual literacy lesson plans based on TAP-supported photo projects through a stand-alone website, aftermathprojectlessons.org. These lesson plans are offered to educators completely free of charge we dont even ask for a registration or email address to download them. In 2024, TAP joined the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) to connect with and better serve visual literacy educators.The Aftermath Project plays a vital role in supporting the photography community, engaging the public in post-conflict conversations, and enhancing visual literacy. 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