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Integrity Media Nfp

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$413k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Civil Rights$145kCommunity Improvement$65kArts & Culture$60kEducation$30kPublic Benefit$25kRecreation & Sports$13kHuman Services$8kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$814k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
PEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES$100,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR SCHEERPOST$50,000
NEIU FOUNDATION$25,000
INVISIBLE INSTITUTE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION$10,000
CONSORTIUM FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM$7,500
BREAKTHROUGH BT MEDIA$5,000
MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL AND CHARITABLE SOCIETY$5,000
MEDIA FREEDOM FOUNDATION$5,000
BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE$5,000
UNCHAINED TV$5,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$5,000
BASED POLITICS$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $8k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
VT
IL
NY
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
TX

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.

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$225k · 5 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$225k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • II
    Invisible Institute
    2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +120%
  • TC
    The Consortium for Independent Journalism Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • MF
    Media Freedom Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • QI
    QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -38%
  • CD
    COMMON DREAMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +42%
  • DA
    DEMOCRACY AT WORK
    one grant, 2023 · $8k

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.

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.

2
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
3
Independent Media Institute

IMI amplifies the reach and impact of the work produced by our partner journalists,public intellectuals and editorial teams on the leading issues of our times. The goal is to educate, inspire, and collaborate with movements and visionaries…

Arts & Culture
4
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
5
Foundation for Investigative Journalism

Mission:To provide ideology-free media platforms representing balanced news and educational forums to inform and increase critical thinking and engagement.

Public Benefit
6
The Media Institute

To foster freedom of speech, a competitive media and communications industry, and excellence in journalism.

7
Injustice Watch Nfp

Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system.

Civil Rights
8
The Conversationalist
9
The Libertarian Institute

Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.

Education
10
Prism Reports Inc

Through in-depth and thought-provoking journalism, prism reflects the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice. As an independent and nonprofit newsroom LED by journalists of color, we tell stories from the ground up: to…

Education
11
Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company Inc

The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. (The Daily Californian) is an independent newspaper that trains UC Berkeley students for careers in journalism and business. The paper and its digital products are the primary source…

12
Inequality Media

To use digital media for the purpose of educating and engaging the public in topics regarding inequality and imbalance of power in america.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Power Initiatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for the Advancement of Journalistic Clarity. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR SCHEERPOST — $57,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR SCHEERPOSTNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · Other+6 more — $37,500 · Other+6 morePEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC — $107,500 · Civil RightsPEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INCInvisible Institute — $32,500 · Civil RightsInvisible InstituteThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated — $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bay A…INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JOURNALISTIC CLARITY — $7,500 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE…INDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDE…TRUTHOUT — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTRUTHOUTBreakthroughBT Media Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBreakthro…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED…The Consortium for Independent Journalism Inc — $15,000 · EducationAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE — $5,000 · EducationQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT — $7,500 · Community ImprovementFAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC — $7,500 · Community ImprovementMedia Freedom Foundation — $12,500 · Recreation & SportsCOMMON DREAMS INC — $7,500 · Social Science
Other$280,000Civil Rights$140,000Arts & Culture$42,500Education$20,000Community Improvement$15,000Recreation & Sports$12,500Social Science$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEOPLE POWER INITIATIVES INC — $107,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetInvisible Institute — $32,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Consortium for Independent Journalism Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMedia Freedom Foundation — $12,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON DREAMS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF JOURNALISTIC CLARITY — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUTHOUT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnchainedTV — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBreakthroughBT Media Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CULTURAL AND CHARITABLE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lannan Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Integrity Media Nfp 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Integrity Media Nfp?

    Find your warmest path to Integrity Media Nfp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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