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ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION
The ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION is dedicated to the promotion of independent journalism.
$4.7M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
fufillmentbeat
2024
fufillment transformation
2025
fulfillmentmanagementeducationnewsweeklymedia
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $4,654,874.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Press Watch
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
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Civic News Company
At civic news company, our mission is helping people understand how america works so they can make it work better. we do so by providing deep local coverage of important issues to increase public understanding of and participation in civic…
Education
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The Int'l Center for Journalists Inc
International
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Nc Local Inc
Expands local news across North Carolina
Civil Rights
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Indij Public Media
INDIJ Public Media is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia news enterprise. We reach audiences through our digital platform and as a broadcast carried via public television stations. The mission is to serve Indigenous communities with…
Arts & Culture
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National Newspaper Association
The foundation is the educational arm of the national newspaper association. its mission is to promote news literacy, and enhance the quality, role and capabilities of community newspapers and community journalists through education.
Arts & Culture
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Cityside Journalism Initiative
Cityside Journalism Initiative (Cityside) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization committed to building community through local journalism. Cityside provides readers with fact-driven, nonpartisan, informative reporting that seeks to…
Arts & Culture
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Border Center for Journalists and
Arts & Culture
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Independence Public Media of
Arts & Culture
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Society of Professional Journalists
To aid, encourage and promote education and training in the field of journalism.
Arts & Culture
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The Media Project
Religion
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Criminal Justice Journalists
Educating the public and journalists about crime and criminal justice, primarily through the publication of a daily news digest, Crime and Justice News.
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Appeal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Voice News Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 6 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 35% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/175
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,390
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Local Independent Online News Publishers IncDE52.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Local Media Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Local Media Association · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Solutions Journalism Network Inc · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism · American Press Institute Inc · The Int'L Center for Journalists Inc · Rose Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Alternative Newsweekly Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Alternative Newsweekly Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines