· Private foundation
Dow Jones News Fund Inc
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HOWARD U MULTICULTURAL MEDIA ACAD | $6,250 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FDN | $6,250 |
| CALMATTERS | $6,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $6,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its 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 +49% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education3× · 2017–2019 · $95k · revenue +5%
- IRINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $44k · revenue +65%
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- FAFLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISMone grant, 2020 · $30k
- MPMCCANDLISH PHILLIPS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE (KINGS COLLEGE)one grant, 2020 · $26k
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $21k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based 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.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Promotion of journalism and mass communication education.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)
Advances journalism and media as a vital cultural force by connecting advisers, students and professionals through national events and competitions and by creating and curating content that enhances professional development. defines global…
The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is dedicated to excellence and high standards in professional education in journalism and mass communication.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
1. provide independent student journalism and comprehensive coverage of news, media and events that serve the public interest and inform the university of minnesota community.2. offer a forum for the free exchange of ideas and civil debate…
The national press photographers association is dedicated to the advancement of visual journalism, its creation, practice, training, editing and distribution, in all news media and works to promote its role as a vital public service.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 336 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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- Who funds Coaching Detroit Forward Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CITY LIMITS NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Scripps Howard Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists · Tegna Foundation Inc · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Institute for Nonprofit News
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dow Jones News Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dow Jones News Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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