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Institute for Nonprofit News

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

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
107
Grants FY2025still arriving
28
States reached
$301k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 107 grants below total $2,749,213, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,807,781 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,568 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k86 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $569k
$10,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASS BLUE$300,722
PUBLIC ROAD PRODUCTIONS LLC$268,063
THE KANSAS CITY DEFENDER$157,759
SHASTA SCOUT$141,949
THE OVERLOOK$128,708
RE PUBLIC LANDS MEDIA$113,522
GIGAFACT$95,274
THE OBJECTIVE$87,085
HOMEFRONT$79,648
DIAL MAGAZINE INC$75,213
THE RIVERSIDE RECORD$67,819
VOICE OF MONTEREY BAY$65,728
VOXPOPULI$59,318
JEFFERSON COUNTY BEACON$41,592
MINERAL WELLS AREA NEWS$26,496
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELT MEDIA COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 11%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $24k → 29%STREET ROOTS: $20k → 12%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $20k → 29%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $6k → 29%BELT MEDIA COOPERATIVE: $3k → 17%TIDES CENTER (CA HEALTH REPORT): $1k → 10%DOCUMENTED LTD: $61k → 20%THE POLITICAL REPORT INC: $20k → 14%DOCUMENTED LTD: $81k → 17%DOCUMENTED LTD: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 124 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

124 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
224

Total granted

$25M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

82%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OC
    OPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +14% · 71% of their budget
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2.6M · revenue +28% · 36% of their budget
  • INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WAR HORSE NEWS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $94k · revenue +69%
  • U
    UNSETTLED
    one grant, 2024 · $66k
  • AN
    ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $66k · revenue -3%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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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2
Trusting News Inc

Trusting News improves the quality of news reporting by studying trust in news and training and coaching journalists to demonstrate credibility and actively earn trust. Their work equips thousands of journalists every year to better…

Arts & Culture
3
The Conversationalist
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4
Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights
5
Institute for the Advancement of Journalistic Clarity

To provide credible reporting and commentary on its website (counterpunch.org) and through its podcast, helping readers make informed and balanced assessments - vital for a healthy democratic society - on the public issues of the day.

Arts & Culture
6
Citizens News Guild Inc

Citizens news guild educates the public by publishing non-partisan state and local news.

Community Improvement
7
Journalism New England

The organization is non-profit organization working to build and sustain local news and ensure that local news organizations across new england are supported with the kinds of tailored problem-solving, training and partnerships they need…

Civil Rights
8
Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Criminal Justice Journalists

Educating the public and journalists about crime and criminal justice, primarily through the publication of a daily news digest, Crime and Justice News.

Crime & Legal
10
Canary Media Inc

Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy.

Environment
11
Rebuild Local News

To advance public policies to counter the collapse of local news, revitalize community journalism, and strengthen democracy.

Education
12
Swampscott Tides Inc

online local newspaper

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springfield Daily Citizen Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

333 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 333 of the 414 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
69
Early backer (in before they grew)
328/333
Grantees still filing
149/333
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC: $3,510,633 · Arts & CultureOPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INCFOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM: $2,044,724 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISMNEWS REVENUE HUB INC: $843,946 · Arts & CultureNEWS REVENUE HUB INCTHE DIAL MAGAZINE INC: $585,162 · Arts & CultureFEET IN 2 WORLDS INC: $575,858 · Arts & CultureUnderscore Media Collaboration: $427,419 · Arts & Culture+85 more: $4,314,126 · Arts & Culture+85 moreSOLITARY WATCH: $1,373,352 · OtherSOLITARY WATCHPASS BLUE: $721,842 · OtherPASS BLUETHE KANSAS CITY DEFENDER: $664,305 · OtherTHE KANSAS CITY DEFENDERVOICE OF MONTEREY BAY: $488,417 · OtherVOICE OF MONTEREY BAYPUBLIC ROAD PRODUCTIONS LLC: $280,423 · OtherMONTANA CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: $262,010 · OtherMIGRATORY NOTES: $255,414 · OtherPUBLIC ROAD PRODUCTIONS LLC: $241,661 · Other+47 more: $2,400,545 · Other+47 moreINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $1,413,367 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR…CIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $740,954 · EducationCIVIC NEWS CO…TRADEOFFS INC: $418,950 · EducationTRADEOFFS INCTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $116,429 · Education+23 more: $677,581 · Education+23 moreINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC: $2,580,552 · InternationalINTERNATIO…+1 more: $21,000 · InternationalGIGAFACT FOUNDATION: $1,259,373 · Public BenefitHudson Valley Pilot: $174,035 · Public BenefitTHE WAR HORSE NEWS INC: $94,485 · Public Benefit+10 more: $343,465 · Public BenefitNORTH STATE COMMUNITY JOURNALISM PROJECT: $360,491 · Community ImprovementGREY MATTERS PROJECT INC: $47,360 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $28,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $26,500 · Community ImprovementAUSTIN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT The Austin Bulldog: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDocumented LTD: $187,934 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $49,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $35,500 · Human ServicesFOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS: $30,000 · Human ServicesBELT MEDIA COLLABORATIVE: $22,500 · Human ServicesSTREET ROOTS INC: $20,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$12,301,868Other$6,687,969Education$3,367,281International$2,601,552Public Benefit$1,871,358Community Improvement$512,351Human Services$345,434

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

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 MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $149,050 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budget
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.

  • Who funds OPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOS ANGELES JOURNALISM ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
  • Who funds GIGAFACT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEWS REVENUE HUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds THE DIAL MAGAZINE INC ↗
  • Who funds FEET IN 2 WORLDS 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 THE OVERLOOK ↗
  • Who funds CatchLight ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINEDOTNEWS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Land Cle ↗

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 Onl…The Miami Foundation …The Groundtruth Proje…The Lenfest Institute…American Journalism P…Inasmuch FoundationSolutions Journalism …Fund for Investigativ…John S and James L Kn…Pro Publica IncReva and David Logan …John D and Catherine …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for Nonprofit News funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Nonprofit News. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home