How much did INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS grant in FY2024?

INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS reported 349 grants totaling $9,661,222 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS based?

INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS is based in CA.

INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS

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· Public charity

INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS

The corporation is organized and will be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, including: fostering and promoting the highest quality investigative and public service journalism in order to inform and educate the public by means of, among other things, providing…

$9.7M

Granted FY2024

349

Grants

Communities

$780k

Largest

01What you fund

0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$13MEducation$3.6MInternational$2.6MPublic Benefit$2.0MHuman Services$375kCommunity Improvement$360kCivil Rights$273kEnvironment$265kPhilanthropy$169kOther$9.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

globalreportingfederaltaxdistributedgovernmentbuild

2019

mcirglobalinformingreportingnonpartisantaxfederal

2020

inn directriver basindirect riverrural covidcovid partnersdirect lightfootclimate change

2021

inn directcolumbia interncovid lessonsdirect covidmobility collaborationout collaborationcollaboration water

2022

inn directcolumbia internshipdirect columbiagnielccollaborationobjective

2023

inn nihcmnihcm collaborationinn waltoninn internshipwalton collaborationinterinn great

2024

inn labslabs electionelection guidelabs columbiacolumbia collalabs emergingemerging leade

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 349 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $53k
$10k–50k327 grants · $7.2M
$50k–250k10 grants · $926k
$250k+5 grants · $2.2M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

GIGAFACT$780,258
FOUNDATION FOR LA JOURNALISM$491,711
THE KANSAS CITY DEFENDER$334,375
THE KANSAS CITY DEFENDER$334,375
PASS BLUE$269,196
PUBLIC ROAD PRODUCTIONS LLC$175,569
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION$139,050
NEWSHOUR PRODUCTIONS LLC$114,660
NEWHOUR PRODUCTIONS LLC$114,660
ARK VALLEY VOICE$70,454
ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FND$66,000
DIAL MAGAZINE INC$65,173
SHASTA SCOUT$64,484
THE OBJECTIVE$60,669
WINCHESTER NEWS GROUP$55,697

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 108 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +130% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

108 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 220 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108

Total granted

$27M

$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%

+14%

Still filing today

80%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

OC
OPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +14% · 71% of their budget
VOICES OF MOTEREY BAY - GIANNINI FUND
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +173%
NR
NEWS REVENUE HUB INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $844k · revenue +721% · 82% of their budget

Funded once

TW
THE WAR HORSE NEWSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $94k · revenue +333%
PD
PLATEAU DAILY NEWS
one grant, 2023 · $10k
SP
SMALLTOWN PAPERS INC
one grant, 2021 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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The Int'l Center for Journalists Inc

International

National Newspaper Association

The foundation is the educational arm of the national newspaper association. its mission is to promote news literacy, and enhance the quality, role and capabilities of community newspapers and community journalists through education.

Arts & Culture

Society of Professional Journalists

To aid, encourage and promote education and training in the field of journalism.

Arts & Culture

Border Center for Journalists and

Arts & Culture

Denver Press Club

Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…

Arts & Culture

Society of Environmental Journalists

The mission of the society of environmental journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Arts & Culture

Institute for Journalism

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture

Independence Public Media of

Arts & Culture

The Current Media Inc

The current media was created by experienced journalists to address a shortfall of in-depth, thoughtful journalism in this area. further, lafayette and the broader acadiana region lack local ownership among its media organizations.…

Arts & Culture

Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights

The Media Project

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for Nonprofit News and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 50% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.3%1/346

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,219

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

307 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

171

Early backer (in before they grew)

303/307

Grantees still filing

257/307

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$13,166,211Other$10,334,008Education$3,631,460International$2,621,552Public Benefit$1,966,420Human Services$375,434Community Improvement$360,402

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Miami Foundation IncFL110.2× affinity84 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

29get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHASTA SCOUT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 870875823 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHASTA SCOUT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Institute for Nonprofit News?

Find your warmest path to Institute for Nonprofit News through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

307 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Institute for Nonprofit News?

More from the funding graph

INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

307 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Institute for Nonprofit News?

More from the funding graph