· Public charity
Internews Network
Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.
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.
The 34 grants below total $3,471,505 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $39,392,360 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,920,855 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $932k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY CORPS | $1,037,232 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW | $853,415 |
| BREAKTHROUGH MEDIA NETWORK LTD | $289,085 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE INC | $195,282 |
| SEMBRAMEDIA | $149,995 |
| GRUPO CONEXO LLC | $129,975 |
| OBJSEE OBJECTIVE-SEE FOUNDATION INC | $80,718 |
| OLIVERCOADY INC | $71,431 |
| GLOBAL NETWORK INITIATIVE | $68,331 |
| HORIZONTAL | $63,995 |
| ARCCOINFO INC | $61,604 |
| MEDIA ALLIANCE (OPENARCHIVE) | $59,945 |
| SJAC (SYRIA JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER) | $51,098 |
| LEDE NEW ORLEANS | $49,500 |
| RIGHTS ACTION LAB INC | $46,200 |
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 (FY17–20, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $36M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
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. 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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 22 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $773k 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
- PPARTNERSGLOBAL5× · 2019–2023 · $3.6M · revenue +90%
- FHFREEDOM HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +113%
- OFOPERATOR FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +374% · 73% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKone grant, 2023 · $150k
- LLLocalization Lab Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue +215%
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue +52% · 42% of their budget
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.
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
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.
We help the public by foreseeing and reacting to globally impactful and existential catastrophes. We forecast near-term risks, detect black swans earlier, and deploy our emergency response team to take mitigating action.
CDT is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.
At freedom of the press foundation (fpf), our mission is to protect and defend press freedom in the 21st century. we do this through:1.) public advocacy on issues affecting press freedom, including government transparency, the right to…
To strengthen journalism, digital literacy and information accessible for global communities.
Eurasianet is an independent news organization that covers news from and about the south caucasus and central asia, providing on-the-ground reporting and critical perspectives on the most important developments in the region. we strive to…
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
Epic's mission is to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age for all people through advocacy, research, and litigation.
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Now and the most unlike its peers is San Bernardino Valley Concert Association. 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 15 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 89 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
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.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSGLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPERATOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAR GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTICLE 19 INC ↗
- Who funds SEMBRAMEDIA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL NETWORK INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GISA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds HORIZONTAL ↗
- Who funds INVENTARIO ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE ENGINE ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds Localization Lab Inc ↗
- Who funds VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHANDEEYAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALYX INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds E-COLLABORATIVE FOR CIVIC EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association ↗
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: The Ford Foundation · National Endowment for Democracy · Foundation to Promote Open Society · New Venture Fund · The Miami Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Pact Inc · Mozilla Foundation · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Institute for Nonprofit News
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 Internews Network 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.
- Cubanet News Inc — 67% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Phandeeyar Foundation — 2% 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.