How much did AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$39MEducation$11MPublic Benefit$3.4MCommunity Improvement$1.7MCivil Rights$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$582kEnvironment$352kEmployment$340kOther$779k

02beneath 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

2019

model fiscallyfiscally sponsored

2020

model fiscallyfiscally sponsored

2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k8 grants · $230k
$50k–250k19 grants · $2.4M
$250k+24 grants · $16M

$204,950

Median grant

States reached

$66M

Total assets

Largest grants

FREE PRESS INDIANA$5,456,464
OHIO LOCAL INFORMATION INITIATIVE$1,454,936
CALMATTERS$812,000
FORT WORTH REPORT$596,384
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC$549,167
THE CITY REPORT INC$534,745
SPOTLIGHT PA$509,135
WISCONSIN CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM$494,471
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO$480,000
CITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE$455,375
LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE$444,975
BEACON MEDIA INC$427,927
INDIJ PUBLIC MEDIA$401,113
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO$369,963
HOUSTON LOCAL INFORMATION INITIATIVE$350,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $582k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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 edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$57M · 51 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +163% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$57M

$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+163%

-22%

Still filing today

98%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CJ
CITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +102% · 45% of their budget
BM
BEACON MEDIA INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +605% · 46% of their budget
TM
THE MISSISSIPPI TODAY
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +1648%

Funded once

RL
REBUILD LOCAL NEWS
one grant, 2023 · $250k
LS
LIFE SHARED INTERNATIONAL
one grant, 2021 · $102k · revenue -99% · 55% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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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Society of Professional Journalists

To aid, encourage and promote education and training in the field of journalism.

Arts & Culture

Denver Press Club

Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…

Arts & Culture

The Int'l Center for Journalists Inc

International

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

Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights

Border Center for Journalists and

Arts & Culture

Society of Environmental Journalists

The mission of the society of environmental journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life in San Francisco by delivering public-interest journalism to broad and diverse audiences through print and interactive media not supported by advertising. The San…

Education

Citizens News Guild Inc

Citizens news guild educates the public by publishing non-partisan state and local news.

Community Improvement

Independence Public Media of

Arts & Culture

MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for Nonprofit News and the most unlike its peers is Oklahoma State University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 7 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) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 35% 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%0/60

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,505

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.

05the grantee network

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/59

Grantees still filing

49/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$39,440,981Education$10,821,133Public Benefit$3,438,531Community Improvement$1,658,000Civil Rights$1,560,500Philanthropy$1,407,500Other$2,053,492

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Miami Foundation IncFL72.6× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Pro Publica Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Local Media Association

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LOOKOUT PUBLICATIONS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 923129757 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LOOKOUT PUBLICATIONS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to American Journalism Project Inc?

Find your warmest path to American Journalism Project Inc 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.

AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Journalism Project Inc?

More from the funding graph

AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Journalism Project Inc?

More from the funding graph