· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $50,000 |
| OUT IN TECH INC | $50,000 |
| REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF | $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 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIA | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- 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 INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CODE SAVVY ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dow Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dow Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for New Americans Inc: 45% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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