Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc
The organization provides critical support to independent journalists to investigate news stories regarding corruption, malfeasance, exploitation, misappropriation of funds in the public and private sectors.
- $621k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $91k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $14,994
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $91k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $131k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $245k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $217k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $145k | 93% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $89k | 90% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $64,926 | 4 | n/a |
| InvestigateWest | $64,655 | 6 | 4% |
| Wcij Inc | $61,947 | 3 | 2% |
| San Francisco Public Press | $44,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting | $41,400 | 2 | 13% |
| Honolulu Civil Beat Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grey Matters Project Inc | $34,603 | 3 | 8% |
| Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Inc | $30,497 | 3 | 4% |
| Carolina Public Press Inc | $30,280 | 3 | 2% |
| The Texas Democracy Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Pro Publica Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Solutions Journalism Network Inc · American Journalism Project Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc
- How much does Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc give?
- Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $91,221, out of $621,161 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (72%), Public Benefit (14%), Education (6%).
- Who are Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents of the University of California at Berkeley ($65k), InvestigateWest ($65k), Wcij Inc ($62k).
- Does Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Institute for Nonprofit News, The Miami Foundation Inc, The Groundtruth Project Inc.
- Where is Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc based?
- Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc is based in DC.
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