New York · Private foundation
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $199k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Dow Jones Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.3M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $998k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $956k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $923k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dow Jones News Fund Inc | $2,310,000 | 7 | 70% |
| Online News Association | $875,000 | 7 | 5% |
| The News Literacy Project Inc | $525,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Easter Seals Inc | $380,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | $350,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Out in Tech Inc | $250,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Committee to Protect Journalists Inc | $220,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) | $220,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Int'L Center for Journalists Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $153,039 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($834k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dow Jones Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Dow Jones Foundation
- How much does Dow Jones Foundation give?
- Dow Jones Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $1,155,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Dow Jones Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (40%), Arts & Culture (24%), Education (11%).
- Who are Dow Jones Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dow Jones News Fund Inc ($2.3M), Online News Association ($875k), The News Literacy Project Inc ($525k).
- Does Dow Jones Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dow Jones Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dow Jones Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John S and James L Knight Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Dow Jones Foundation based?
- Dow Jones Foundation is based in NY.
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