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Dow Jones Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $585k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOW JONES NEWS FUND | $350,000 |
| ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| EASTER SEALS INC | $110,000 |
| THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $50,000 |
| OUT IN TECH INC | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALIST | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR ALL | $25,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $25,000 |
| RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC | $25,000 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDAT | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURN | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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 +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- DJDOW JONES NEWS FUND INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +385% · 70% of their budget
- ONONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2025 · $875k · revenue +5%
- TNTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- RARISE AGAINST HUNGERone grant, 2022 · $75k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -17%- ICINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHYone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
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.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
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…
Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…
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…
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…
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,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.
Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper. this promise depends on the public's ability to see and understand how their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The News Literacy Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dow Jones News Fund Inc. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 58 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 DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds OUT IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHE'S THE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS ↗
- Who funds THE OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CODE SAVVY ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
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: John S and James L Knight Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Tegna Foundation Inc · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Greater Washington Community 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 Dow Jones Foundation 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.
- Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
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.
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