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Institute for Nonprofit News

Fostering and promoting the highest quality investigative and public service journalism.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
107
Itemized grants FY2025
306
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$300,722
Organizations funded a year
15 to 306
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
28
Total assets, FY2025
$7.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Institute for Nonprofit News funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving106$2.7M60%
FY2024306$9.4M71%
FY202351$4.5M33%
FY202234$2.6M44%
FY202152$2.7M46%
FY202064$2.4M77%
FY201920$1.2M30%
FY201815$1.8M53%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$12MEducation$4.3MPublic Benefit$3.9MInternational$2.6MCrime & Legal$2.0MHealth$818kPhilanthropy$687kEnvironment$406kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Campus Media Inc$3,510,633671%
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc$2,580,552336%
Foundation for Los Angeles Journalism$2,044,724436%
Institute for Nonprofit News$1,413,36747%
Solitary Watch$1,373,3526n/a
Gigafact Foundation$1,259,3734n/a
News Revenue Hub Inc$843,946282%
Civic News Company$740,95454%
Pass Blue$721,8423n/a
The Kansas City Defender$664,3054n/a
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All grantees of Institute for Nonprofit News by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Campus Media Inc$3,510,633671%
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc$2,580,552336%
Foundation for Los Angeles Journalism$2,044,724436%
Institute for Nonprofit News$1,413,36747%
Solitary Watch$1,373,3526n/a
Gigafact Foundation$1,259,3734n/a
News Revenue Hub Inc$843,946282%
Civic News Company$740,95454%
Pass Blue$721,8423n/a
The Kansas City Defender$664,3054n/a
The Dial Magazine Inc$585,162483%
Feet in 2 Worlds Inc$575,85858%
Voice of Monterey Bay$488,4179n/a
Underscore Media Collaboration$427,419529%
Tradeoffs Inc$418,950335%
American Journalism Project Inc$394,95531%
North State Community Journalism Project$360,491496%
Public Road Productions LLC$280,4231n/a
Montana Center for Investigative Reporting$262,0103n/a
Migratory Notes$255,4145n/a
Public Road Productions LLC$241,6612n/a
Truth Has a Voice Foundation$210,8503n/a
Objective Journalism Society$202,5364n/a
Documented LTD$187,93451%
Public Square Amplified$174,7143100%
Hudson Valley Pilot$174,035286%
Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$156,280445%
Georgia News Labinc - Dept of Communication Ga State University$144,5003n/a
Voxpopuli$138,1794n/a
The Overlook$128,708173%
CatchLight$125,00038%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$122,66020%
Brooklinedotnews Corporation$122,49424%
Texas Tribune Inc$116,42940%
Re Public Lands Media$113,5221n/a
Inland Empire Publications$111,5512n/a
Religion News Foundation$102,31043%
Honolulu Civil Beat Inc$99,63761%
The Land Cle$99,065343%
The War Horse News Inc$94,485113%
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting$94,338417%
City Report Inc$93,61351%
Bay City News Foundation$89,95148%
Grey Matter Media LLC$88,1074n/a
New Mexico In Depth Inc$86,62757%
The Record Community News Group$83,607333%
Beacon Media Inc$82,49935%
Winchester News Group Inc$81,6642n/a
Homefront$79,6481n/a
Wcij Inc$78,20251%
Sahan Journal$70,39542%
Deep South Today$68,02930%
Alternative Newsweekly Foundation$66,00011%
Mineral Wells Area News$65,8293n/a
Rest of World Media Inc$65,32021%
Cecil Public Media$62,6513n/a
Salish Current$60,269346%
Connecticut News Project Inc$59,22031%
Block Club Chicago Nfp$55,34151%
Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd$55,27241%
The Salt Lake Tribune Inc$54,19920%
Inside Climate News Inc$52,65121%
Evanston Roundtable Media Nfp$52,03523%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$50,00020%
The Center for Rural Strategies Inc$49,50031%
Borderless Magazine NFP$48,12544%
Curators of the University of Missouri$47,8072n/a
Muckrock Foundation Inc$47,75031%
Grey Matters Project Inc$47,36024%
Breckenridge Texan$46,6376n/a
Cardinal Productions Inc$46,50023%
Next City Inc$44,20041%
Mission Local SF Inc$44,00023%
Michigan Enviromental Council$43,79340%
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$43,50023%
The Center for Public Integrity$43,38222%
City Limits News Inc$43,16024%
Jefferson County Beacon$41,5921n/a
Board of Trustees of Illinois State University$40,0001n/a
Florida Center for Government Accountability Inc$40,000115%
Independent Arts & Media$40,00011%
Fort Worth Report$38,92321%
Mississippi Journalism and Education Group$38,50034%
San Francisco Public Press$37,80034%
Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism Inc$37,783216%
Investigative Newsource$36,00031%
The Groundtruth Project Inc$36,00020%
Washington Monthly$35,5374n/a
Indij Public Media$35,00020%
Enlace Latino Nc Inc$34,75022%
South Dakota News Watch$34,00024%
The Tiny News Collective Inc$34,00020%
Mountain State Spotlight Inc$34,00022%
Providence Eye$33,973117%
Lower Cape Community Access Television Inc$32,36023%
Fresh Energy$32,00020%
Trace Media Inc$32,00020%
Injustice Watch NFP$32,00032%
Science Friday Initiative Inc$31,47511%
MinnPost$31,25031%
San Antonio Report$31,00021%
Capital B News Inc$30,75011%
The Futuro Media Group$30,29320%
Afrola Media Group$30,000213%
LOOKOUT Publications$30,00016%
Fostering Media Connections$30,00021%
The JOLT News Organization$30,00026%
Community Partners$30,00020%
Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc$30,00023%
Nebraska Journalism Trust$29,00021%
Oklahoma State University Foundation$29,00010%
The Sierra Nevada Ally$29,000223%
Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc$28,58024%
North Carolina Health News Inc$28,30024%
City Bureau Nfp$28,00020%
Mission Local$28,0003n/a
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc$28,00020%
70 Faces Media Inc$28,00020%
Charlottesville Tomorrow$28,00022%
Montana Free Press$28,00021%
University Radio Foundation Inc$27,79410%
Rochester Beacon Inc$27,568412%
365 Media Foundation Inc$27,50032%
Teachers College Columbia University$26,99720%
SJVWater$26,75037%
Center for Community Stewardship$26,50011%
Columbia Insight$26,500310%
BenitoLink Inc$26,50016%
Central Florida Community News Inc$26,500115%
Knock Publishing Company$26,500116%
Cityside Journalism Initiative$25,50020%
American University$25,21110%
Four Points Media Inc$25,000115%
Better Government Association Inc$25,00020%
El Paso Matters Inc$25,000232%
Unsettled$24,8931n/a
Spotlight Pa$23,00010%
Kent News Inc$23,000143%
Patagonia Regional Times Inc$23,000112%
Wausau Pilot and Review Corporation$23,000113%
Southeast Ohio Independent News$23,00016%
India Currents Foundation$22,50017%
The Intercept Media Inc$22,50010%
The Center for Michigan$22,50010%
Belt Media Collaborative$22,500228%
The Current Media Inc$22,50015%
Brown Impact Media Group$22,0002n/a
Circle of Blue Inc$21,25025%
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting$21,00024%
Inkstick Media Inc$21,00012%
San Jose News Bureau$20,80932%
Sustainable Journalism Foundation$20,50013%
The Conversation US Inc$20,50020%
Eden Prairie Local News$20,000111%
AmericanWitness Inc$20,00013%
The Reporters Inc$20,000140%
Local Reporting Lab Initiative Inc$20,00016%
Civil Eats$20,00012%
Radio Ambulante Studios Inc$20,00011%
TCN Inc DBA The Charlotte News$20,000110%
Corner Post Media$20,00019%
Utah Investigative Journalism Project$20,000117%
AUSTIN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT The Austin Bulldog$20,000134%
Searchlight New Mexico News$20,00012%
Accion Latina$20,0001n/a
San Francisco Study Center Inc$20,00010%
Advocate Foundation Inc$20,00014%
Appalachian Newspaper Inc$20,0001n/a
Resolve Philadelphia Inc$20,00011%
H2o Media Ltd$20,0001n/a
ecoRI Inc$20,00014%
Auricle Productions$20,00013%
Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$20,00010%
Civiclex Incorporated$20,00012%
My Neighborhood News Network$20,00014%
Street Roots Inc$20,00011%
Gig Harbor Now$20,00018%
Massachusetts Media Fund Inc$20,00017%
Growing Community Media NFP$20,00011%
Community Wireless of Park City$20,00011%
Bucks County Herald Foundation$20,00012%
Duke University$20,00010%
Arizona Local Post$20,00013%
Food Bank News Inc$20,000114%
Baltimore Beat Inc$20,00012%
East Greenwich News$20,000111%
Grist Magazine Inc$20,00010%
Floodlight Inc$20,00011%
Kansas Leadership Center$20,00010%
Wnet$20,00010%
Online Journalism Project Incorporated$20,00011%
Spotlight Dcorg - Capital City Fund for Investigative$20,000123%
East Lansing Info$20,000112%
Fresnoland Media$20,00013%
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc$20,00012%
Cntr for Broadcast Journalism$20,0001n/a
Stet News Inc$20,000117%
Mongabay Org Corp$20,00010%
Opensecrets$20,00011%
Canopy Atlanta$20,00014%
Red & Black Publishing Company Inc$20,00013%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$20,00010%
Illinois Press Foundation Inc$20,00011%
International Media Project$20,00016%
Participatory Politics Foundation$20,00014%
Media Alliance$20,00011%
Capital Region Community Media Inc$20,00016%
National Association of Hispanic Journalists$20,0001n/a
Georgia Press Educational Foundation$20,000113%
Barn Raising Media Inc$20,00016%
Springfield Daily Citizen Inc$20,00012%
Adirondack Explorer Inc$20,00011%
Linking Community Now Inc$20,00019%
Winter Park Voice Inc$20,000130%
Lv Public Telecommunications Corp Wlvt-Tv Channel 39$20,00010%
New York Focus Inc$20,00011%
Global Press Institute$20,0001n/a
Historic Northwest Media Inc$20,000110%
Wjct Inc$20,00010%
Asheville Watchdog$20,00013%
West View Media$20,0001n/a
LJMN Media Inc$20,00011%
Association for Promotion of Jewish Secularism Inc$20,00011%
North Dakota News Cooperative$20,000111%
University of Texas at El Paso$20,0001n/a
Vermont Independent Media Inc$20,00014%
Delaware Currents Inc$20,0001n/a
New Narratives Inc$20,00013%
Voice of Orange CountyOrg$20,00012%
Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc$20,00011%
Delaware Public Media Corporation$20,00012%
Mountain Journal Inc$20,000113%
The University of Memphis$20,0001n/a
Madison Workers Cooperative$20,000112%
Sentient Media$20,00011%
National Housing Institute$20,00012%
Dth Media Corporation$20,00013%
Bay Journal Media Inc$20,00014%
Invisible Institute$20,00011%
Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism$20,00019%
The Ipswich Local News Inc$20,00014%
Investigative Post Inc$20,00014%
Wyofile$20,00011%
InvestigateWest$20,00012%
The Lund Report$20,00013%
Pine Plains Local Journalism Projec$20,000114%
Streetcar Suburbs Publishing Inc$20,00015%
Publicsource$20,00011%
The Lens$20,00013%
Pikes Peak Bulletin Nonprofit News Outlet$20,00018%
Type Media Center Inc$20,00011%
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism$20,00010%
Local Journalism Initiative Inc$20,00011%
The Jersey Vindicator$20,0001n/a
Nashville Public Media Inc$20,00013%
Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc$20,00011%
Carolina Public Press Inc$20,00014%
CalMatters$20,00010%
The Cleveland Observer$20,0001n/a
Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog$20,000111%
Sapan Foundation$20,0001n/a
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co$20,00010%
New Bedford Light$20,00011%
The Arbutus Foundation Inc$20,00012%
The Ithaca Voice Inc$20,00016%
Cntr for Comm Stewardship$20,0001n/a
South Side Weekly Nfp$20,00012%
Highway 58 Herald$20,000129%
Alameda Post Inc$20,00019%
Free Press Indiana$20,00010%
Movement Alliance Project$20,00010%
Needham Observer$20,000120%
Aspen Journalism$20,00014%
Prism Reports Inc$20,00011%
Outlier Media$20,00011%
Ohio Local Informational Intiative Inc$20,00010%
The Sopris Sun Inc$20,00012%
Northeast Florida Journalism Collective Inc$20,00015%
Ashland News$20,00016%
The Pulp$20,00018%
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo Inc$20,00011%
Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association$20,00010%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$20,00010%
National Parks Traveler$20,00019%
The 74 Media Inc$20,00011%
New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism$20,00017%
The Bedford Citizen Inc$20,00019%
Peekskill Herald Inc$20,000110%
Public Health Watch Inc$20,00011%
The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club$20,00010%
Pollen Initiative$20,0001n/a
Highlands Current Inc$20,00013%
Chapman Hyperlocal Media Inc$20,000115%
Prison Journalism Project Inc$20,00012%
Limestone Media Inc$20,0001n/a
Capital of Texas Media Foundation$20,00014%
Marblehead News Group Inc$20,00015%
Central Current Inc$20,00015%
Narrative Arts$20,00015%
Atlanta Community Press Collective Inc$20,000111%
Granite State News Collaborative$20,00017%
Edsource Inc$20,00011%
Voice News Network$20,00013%
The Political Report Inc$20,00011%
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth Inc$20,00011%
The Oglethorpe Echo Legacy Inc$20,00016%
100reporters$20,00015%
Miami Fourth Estate Inc$20,000112%
The Red Hook Daily Catch Inc$20,00015%
Journalism Development Network Inc$20,0001n/a
Main Street Media Group$20,000117%
Key Peninsula News$20,0001n/a
American Foundation for the University of British Columbia$20,00011%
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine$20,00012%
Advocate Media - Dallas Inc$20,00011%
Ladder to the Moon Network$20,00015%
The Media Project$20,00013%
The Contributor Inc$20,00011%
Lexington Observer Inc$20,00010%
Montclair Local Nonprofit News Inc$20,00013%
Washington Monthly Institute$20,00011%
Yourarlingtonorg Inc$20,000118%
White Pine Community$20,00013%
Isthmus Community Media Inc$20,00013%
Belmont News Foundation Inc$20,00013%
The Appeal Inc$20,00012%
Informed California Foundation DBA - Open Vallejo$20,00018%
The Buckeye Flame$20,00015%
Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism$19,4303n/a
Society for Science & the Public$16,00020%
Coda Media Inc$16,00021%
Kentucky Public Radio Inc$14,50010%
New York Public Radio$12,24510%
Oklahoma Watch Inc$11,9481n/a
Canary Media Inc$10,5001n/a
Connecticut Alliance for Better Communities Cabc Inc$10,0103n/a
Beacon Media Inc$10,0001n/a
Prout Johnson Advertising Con$10,0001n/a
Cascadia Newspaper Company$10,0001n/a
The Eastside LLC$10,0001n/a
Public Media Group of Southern California$10,00010%
University of Texas$10,0001n/a
Eastern Kentucky University$10,0001n/a
The Philadelphia Citizen$10,00012%
Pasadena Black Pages Newspape$10,0001n/a
New Wave Communications Inc$10,0001n/a
Larchmont Buz$10,0001n/a
Harlan Newsmedia LLC$10,0001n/a
Oahe Publishing Corporation$10,0001n/a
Granite Media Partners Inc$10,0001n/a
Queen Kelly Corporation$10,0001n/a
The San Fernando Valley Sun$10,0001n/a
Capital & Main$10,0001n/a
Latino Media Collaborative$10,00011%
Texas Public Radio$10,00010%
Kcrw Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Southern California Public Radio$10,00010%
Manchester Enterprise Inc$10,0001n/a
Fredericksburg Publishing Hld$10,0001n/a
Southern Newspaper Inc$10,0001n/a
Hoptown Chronicle$10,0001n/a
Kotzebue Broadcasting Inc$10,00012%
Knott County Publishing Co In$10,0001n/a
Valley News Group$10,0001n/a
The Mountain Eagle LP$10,0001n/a
Pasadena Media Foundation$10,0001n/a
Ojai Media LLC$10,0001n/a
Asian American Media Inc$10,0001n/a
Intergrated Wave Com Newspap$10,0001n/a
Pace News Inc$10,0001n/a
Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism$10,00012%
Northern Journal LLC$10,0001n/a
Amestoy Communications LLC$10,0001n/a
Northwest Communities' Education Center$10,0001n/a
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$10,00010%
Grace Lorriane Publications$10,0001n/a
Implulso$10,0001n/a
Newton Rouge LLC$10,0001n/a
Taco Intl LLC$10,0001n/a
Bethel Broadcasting Inc$10,00011%
Lcm-News Inc Dba Outlook News$10,0001n/a
Jefferson County Publications$10,0001n/a
Point Roberts Press Inc$10,0001n/a
Smalltown Papers Inc$8,9421n/a
Voice of San Diego$8,4001n/a
Coastalaska Inc$8,03410%
Retro Report Inc$8,00010%
The Texas Democracy Foundation$8,00011%
The New School$8,00010%
Wnin Tri-State Public Media Inc$8,00010%
Bridge Michigan$8,0001n/a
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism$7,00015%
Oxford Free Press Inc$5,15014%
Nevada News Bureau Inc$5,00010%
The Daily Line$3,5501n/a
Community Renewal Society$3,5001n/a
West Hollywood Media Company LLC$2,7402n/a
La Raza Newspaper$2,6001n/a
Nc Local News Labs (Dba Nc Local News Workshop)$2,1011n/a
The Triibe Inc$2,0001n/a
Detroit Public Media$2,00010%
High Country News$1,25010%
Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc$1,00010%
University of Minnesota Foundation$1,00010%
Inquirefirst$77311%
Local Standard$5831n/a
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting Corp$40011%
Orbmedia Inc$40010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Institute for Nonprofit News supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 22 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpen Campus Media Inc: $3,510,633 over 6y, 71% of budgetInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc: $2,580,552 over 3y, 36% of budgetFoundation for Los Angeles Journalism: $2,044,724 over 4y, 36% of budgetInstitute for Nonprofit News: $1,413,367 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetNews Revenue Hub Inc: $843,946 over 2y, 82% of budgetCivic News Company: $740,954 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetThe Dial Magazine Inc: $585,162 over 4y, 83% of budgetFeet in 2 Worlds Inc: $575,858 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetUnderscore Media Collaboration: $427,419 over 5y, 29% of budgetTradeoffs Inc: $418,950 over 3y, 35% of budgetAmerican Journalism Project Inc: $394,955 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNorth State Community Journalism Project: $360,491 over 4y, 96% of budgetDocumented LTD: $187,934 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPublic Square Amplified: $174,714 over 3y, 100% of budgetHudson Valley Pilot: $174,035 over 2y, 86% of budgetMississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $156,280 over 4y, 45% of budgetThe Overlook: $128,708 over 1y, 73% of budgetCatchLight: $125,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $122,660 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrooklinedotnews Corporation: $122,494 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTexas Tribune Inc: $116,429 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetReligion News Foundation: $102,310 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $99,637 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Land Cle: $99,065 over 3y, 43% of budgetThe War Horse News Inc: $94,485 over 1y, 13% of budgetMaine Center for Public Interest Reporting: $94,338 over 4y, 17% of budgetCity Report Inc: $93,613 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBay City News Foundation: $89,951 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetNew Mexico In Depth Inc: $86,627 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetThe Record Community News Group: $83,607 over 3y, 33% of budgetBeacon Media Inc: $82,499 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWcij Inc: $78,202 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSahan Journal: $70,395 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetDeep South Today: $68,029 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAlternative Newsweekly Foundation: $66,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRest of World Media Inc: $65,320 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSalish Current: $60,269 over 3y, 46% of budgetConnecticut News Project Inc: $59,220 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBlock Club Chicago Nfp: $55,341 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVermont Journalism Trust Ltd: $55,272 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Salt Lake Tribune Inc: $54,199 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInside Climate News Inc: $52,651 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEvanston Roundtable Media Nfp: $52,035 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Rural Strategies Inc: $49,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBorderless Magazine NFP: $48,125 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMuckrock Foundation Inc: $47,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGrey Matters Project Inc: $47,360 over 2y, 4.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Local Independent Online News Publishers IncDE219.6× affinity125 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · American Journalism Project Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Solutions Journalism Network Inc · Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Pro Publica Inc · Reva and David Logan Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Institute for Nonprofit News

How much does Institute for Nonprofit News give?
Institute for Nonprofit News reported 107 itemized grants totaling $2,749,213, out of $2,807,781 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 306 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Institute for Nonprofit News fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Education (15%), Public Benefit (14%).
Who are Institute for Nonprofit News's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Open Campus Media Inc ($3.5M), International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc ($2.6M), Foundation for Los Angeles Journalism ($2.0M).
Does Institute for Nonprofit News fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Institute for Nonprofit News?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc, The Miami Foundation Inc, The Groundtruth Project Inc.
Where is Institute for Nonprofit News based?
Institute for Nonprofit News is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 414 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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