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International Women's Media Foundation

The iwmf unleashes the potential of women journalists as champions of press freedom to transform the global news media.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$614k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$614kPhilanthropy$300kCivil Rights$133kPublic Benefit$129kInternational$49kEmployment$13kAnimals$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $760,993, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,436,724 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $675,731 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $614k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A CULTURE OF SAFETY INC$614,442
SPOTIFY USA INC$50,000
VERIFIED NEWS NETWORK$29,309
NBC UNIVERSAL MEDIA LLC$10,242
PEN AMERICA CENTER$10,000
CREATE GENIUS MEDIA LLC$10,000
NEW MEXICO IN DEPTH$10,000
GREEN TIDE RISING LLC$10,000
MEDIA INNOVATION COLLABORATORY$10,000
MIAMI TRAVEL WORLD LLC$7,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–22, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UPLIFT AFGHANISTAN CO ILAHA ELI OMAR: $8k → 10%NARRATIVE ARTS: $8k → 12%DEMOCRACY FUND INC: $100k → 14%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

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NY
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Grants abroad, by region: $498k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $195k to organizations and $302k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$124k · 25% · 1 grant · 24 people

Stated purpose: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP · EMERGENCY FUNDS

East Asia and the Pacific$98k · 20% · 1 grant · 4 people

Stated purpose: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP · EMERGENCY FUNDS

Sub-Saharan Africa$60k · 12% · 24 people

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS

South America$59k · 12% · 15 people

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS

Central America and the Caribbean$55k · 11% · 1 grant · 25 people

Stated purpose: NDI · EMERGENCY FUNDS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$51k · 10% · 2 grants · 18 people

Stated purpose: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP · CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION · EMERGENCY FUNDS

Middle East and North Africa$26k · 5% · 1 grant · 4 people

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUND · EMERGENCY FUNDS

Russia and Neighboring States$14k · 3% · 5 people

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS

South Asia$9k · 2% · 2 people

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of International Women's Media Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

International Women's Media Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$701k · 3 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$701k
$659k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $761k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TY
    Too Young to Wed Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $660k · revenue -31%
  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $24k · revenue -5%
  • TEXAS TRIBUNE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $17k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • UM
    URL Media Holdings Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $215k
  • DF
    Democracy Fund Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • AL
    Arizona Local Postgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue +65%
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.

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The Conversationalist
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2
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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3
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund
Education
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
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
6
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
7
Unicorn Riot

Unicorn Riot reports underrepresented stories and sheds light on alternative perspectives and systems. We aim to provode an accessible platform for diverse stories, communities, and media makers through free nonprofit news.

Arts & Culture
8
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
9
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture
10
Media Development Investment Fund Inc

Mdif provides affordable financing and technical assistance to independent news and information organizations in challenging environments, helping them to become financially sustainable. see schedule o for continuation.

Philanthropy
11
Guardianorg Foundation

Guardian.org foundation is organized and operated to educate, advance, and inform public discourse and citizen participation around the most pressing issues of the time through the support and advancement of independent journalism.

Arts & Culture
12
Open Transformation Lab Inc

The missions is to provide information and resources to counter disinformation, propaganda, and offer a window to trusted content about the events that are going on in the Middle East.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The African Middle Eastern Leadership Project; the most unlike its peers is Democracy Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 37 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Too Young to Wed Inc: $660,000 · Arts & CultureToo Young to Wed IncArizona Local Post: $57,600 · Arts & CultureArizona Local Post+4 more: $54,771 · Arts & Culture+4 moreA CULTURE OF SAFETY ALLIANCE INC: $614,442 · Public Safety & DisasterA CULTURE OF SAFETY ALLIANCE…URL Media Holdings Inc: $215,000 · OtherURL Media Holdings IncSPOTIFY USA INC: $50,000 · OtherSPOTIFY USA INCTOPOL INC: $40,000 · OtherTOPOL INCVERIFIED NEWS NETWORK: $29,309 · OtherLUZ COLLECTIVE INC: $28,763 · OtherGraham Digital Holding LLC: $22,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES: $20,000 · Other+15 more: $156,517 · Other+15 morePLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyPLEDGELING FOU…+1 more: $6,250 · PhilanthropyDemocracy Fund Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesNARRATIVE ARTS: $8,000 · Human ServicesUplift Afghanistan Fund: $7,500 · Human ServicesAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $24,000 · InternationalTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $17,125 · EducationTHE AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $10,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$772,371Public Safety & Disaster$614,442Other$561,589Philanthropy$306,250Human Services$115,500International$24,000Education$17,125Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetToo Young to Wed Inc: $660,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetA CULTURE OF SAFETY ALLIANCE INC: $614,442 over 1y, 77% of budgetPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDemocracy Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArizona Local Post: $57,600 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $17,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $14,771 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeminist Frequency: $11,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNew Mexico In Depth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNARRATIVE ARTS: $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUplift Afghanistan Fund: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Institute for Nonprof…The Miami Foundation …Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Local Independent Online News Publishers IncDE15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 International Women's Media Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Women's Media Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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