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Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Inc

The foundation supports and advances the educational and research activities of the craig newmark graduate school of journalism at cuny by raising funds and making contributions and grants to the school of journalism.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $1,605,198 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,620,485 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,015,287 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 · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$1,415,661
Median grant
2
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRAIG NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM$1,415,661
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$189,537
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION: $300k → 11%DATA FOR BLACK LIVES: $100k → 8%FREE PRESS: $250k → 12%PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL: $235k → 11%THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALSIM: $225k → 22%MOZILLA FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%SOCIAL GOOD FUND: $100k → 9%ROBERT C MAYNARD INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM EDUCATION: $100k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $100k → 14%INTERNEWS NETWORK: $641k → 18%DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $500k → 17%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 20%THE TEXAS TRIBUNE: $16k → 10%CORPUS CHRISTIE CALLER: $9k → 17%INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS: $53k → 14%THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $50k → 12%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF NEWS PRODUCT ALLIANCE: $80k → 15%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS: $38k → 21%GANNETT INC - THE TENNESSEAN: $9k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $62k → 12%MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $190k → 16%HACKS HACKERS CO FLETCHER HEALF AND HILDRETH PLC: $889k → 7%MISSION CREATE: $40k → 11%BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $200k → 11%THE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING INC: $125k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $60k → 14%DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $345k → 17%VICE MEDIA LLC: $6k → 20%CANADY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $50k → 14%THE MIAMI FOUNDATION: $52k → 15%THE TENNESSEAN: $5k → 14%HACKS HACKERS CO FLETCHER HEALF AND HILDRETH PLC: $410k → 7%DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $155k → 17%HACKS HACKERS CO FLETCHER HEALF AND HILDRETH PLC: $75k → 7%CRAIG NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $1.7M → 17%HACKS HACKERS CO FLETCHER HEALF AND HILDRETH PLC: $42k → 7%CRAIG NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $1.4M → 17%CRAIG NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $900k → 17%CRAIG NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $875k → 17%CRAIG NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $350k → 17%CRAIG NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $200k → 17%SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT PROJECT INC: $50k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $26k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 4 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
29

Total granted

$7.8M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+82%

Still filing today

75%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceCivil RightsScience & TechOther

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

  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.4M
  • HH
    HACKS HACKERS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +176% · 35% of their budget
  • DS
    DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $1.0M · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • IN
    INTERNEWS NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $641k · revenue +108%
  • WC
    WALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $260k · revenue +62%

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.

1
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
2
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

4
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

5
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…

Arts & Culture
6
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
7
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
8
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
9
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
10
The Associated Press Foundation for Journalism Inc

The foundation's mission is to produce, support and promote high-quality journalism focused on underserved issue and focus areas in order to educate and inform the public and ensure widespread, ongoing public access to educational,…

Arts & Culture
11
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
12
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for Nonprofit News and the most unlike its peers is Canady Foundation for the Arts. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community Arts OrganizationsEducation Equity LeadershipGovernment Accountability R…
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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%61%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,729

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK — $5,399,424 · OtherCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKWALTER CRONKITE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION — $300,000 · OtherTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALSIM — $225,000 · Other+10 more — $472,535 · Other+10 moreHACKS HACKERS — $1,415,960 · EducationHACKS HACKERSTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FL…MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $189,537 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIV…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $100,000 · Education+4 more — $187,867 · Education+4 moreINTERNEWS NETWORK — $641,247 · Arts & CultureINTERNEWS NETWO…FREE PRESS — $250,000 · Arts & CultureFREE PRESSPublic Radio International Inc — $235,000 · Arts & CulturePublic Radio In…BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — $200,000 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILAN…INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureINVESTIGATIVE R…Robert C Maynard Institute for Journalism Education — $100,000 · Arts & CultureRobert C Maynar…+4 more — $144,568 · Arts & Culture+4 moreDATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,000,000 · Public BenefitDATA & SOC…EDUCATIONNC — $155,000 · Public BenefitEDUCATIONN…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $132,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyMOZILLA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Science & TechCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $100,000 · Community Improvement
Other$6,396,959Education$2,153,364Arts & Culture$1,680,815Public Benefit$1,155,000Philanthropy$232,000Science & Tech$200,000Community Improvement$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHACKS HACKERS — $1,415,960 over 4y, 35% of budgetDATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetINTERNEWS NETWORK — $641,247 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREE PRESS — $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPublic Radio International Inc — $235,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMOZILLA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $189,537 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATIONNC — $155,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $132,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC — $110,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetRobert C Maynard Institute for Journalism Education — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetData For Black Lives Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC — $53,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMISSION CREATE — $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $38,050 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $26,482 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $15,867 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Ford FoundationNY27.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Democracy Fund Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc

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 Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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