· Public charity
Institute for Nonprofit News
Fostering and promoting the highest quality investigative and public service journalism.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k311 grants · $6.9M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $812k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIGAFACT | $780,258 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LA JOURNALISM | $491,711 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| UNSETTLED | $46,247 |
| PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED | $44,381 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
106 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 218 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OCOPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +14% · 71% of their budget
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +173%- NRNEWS REVENUE HUB INC2× · 2017–2018 · $844k · revenue +721% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- TWTHE WAR HORSE NEWS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $94k · revenue +69%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SPSMALLTOWN PAPERS INCone grant, 2021 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
Expands local news across North Carolina
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Citizens news guild educates the public by publishing non-partisan state and local news.
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To advance public policies to counter the collapse of local news, revitalize community journalism, and strengthen democracy.
online local newspaper
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Journalism Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Voice News Network. 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.
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 44% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
308 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 308 of the 350 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds GIGAFACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWS REVENUE HUB INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAL MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds Underscore Media Collaboration ↗
- Who funds TRADEOFFS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STATE COMMUNITY JOURNALISM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TRUTH HAS A VOICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Documented LTD ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED ↗
- Who funds Hudson Valley Pilot ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CatchLight ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINEDOTNEWS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Land Cle ↗
- Who funds THE WAR HORSE NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds GREY MATTER MEDIA LLC ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds New Mexico In Depth Inc ↗
- Who funds The Record Community News Group ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
- Delaware Public Media Corporation — 11% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Central Florida Community News Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Lund Report — 0% of income from government
- Local Journalism Initiative Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.