· Public charity
American Press Institute Inc
American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a sustainable future.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $224,218 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $468,123 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $243,905 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTING NEWS | $191,768 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW | $10,000 |
| ENLACE LATINO NC | $8,500 |
| BEACON MEDIA INC | $7,000 |
| OHIO LOCAL NEWS INITIATIVE | $6,950 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +252% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HHEARKEN2× · 2022–2023 · $466k
- PJPIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +252%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS2× · 2017–2019 · $54k
Funded once
- UMURL Media Holdings Incone grant, 2022 · $37k
- CSCHICAGO STANDARD LLCone grant, 2020 · $35k
- NTNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWSone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
Expands local news across North Carolina
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The organization is non-profit organization working to build and sustain local news and ensure that local news organizations across new england are supported with the kinds of tailored problem-solving, training and partnerships they need…
Citizens news guild educates the public by publishing non-partisan state and local news.
To advance public policies to counter the collapse of local news, revitalize community journalism, and strengthen democracy.
The mission of the springfield daily citizen is to inform our community and be a catalyst for good.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Limits News 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 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) — 26% of your grantees by number, and just 53% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Trusting News Inc ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds VOICE NEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ACCION LATINA ↗
- Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
- Who funds KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ISTHMUS COMMUNITY MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENLACE LATINO NC INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA NEWS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICSOURCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Solutions Journalism Network Inc · American Journalism Project Inc · Pro Publica Inc · Alternative Newsweekly Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Local Media Association · The Ford Foundation
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 organization American Press Institute 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.