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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.

$39M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

International$17MArts & Culture$5.6MEducation$3.6MCommunity Improvement$1.8MCivil Rights$293kHuman Services$112kScience & Tech$85kEnvironment$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $3,471,505, the rows itemized in this filing. The $39,392,360 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,920,855 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 $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $334k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $932k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
$29,250
Median grant
19
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BENETECH (BENEFICIENT TECHNOLOGY INC): $27k → 8%THE ENGINE ROOM INC: $61k → 17%THE ENGINE ROOM INC: $26k → 17%THE ENGINE ROOM INC: $25k → 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

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL

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.

Russia and Neighboring States$18M · 49% · 221 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6.7M · 19% · 118 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

East Asia and the Pacific$3.9M · 11% · 101 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

Sub-Saharan Africa$3.2M · 9% · 67 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

Middle East and North Africa$1.8M · 5% · 52 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

South America$1.0M · 3% · 26 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

South Asia$718k · 2% · 27 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

Central America and the Caribbean$518k · 1% · 26 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$378k · 1% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 40 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
24

Total granted

$25M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+52%

Still filing today

68%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $773k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • P
    PARTNERSGLOBAL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $3.6M · revenue +8%
  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +113%
  • OF
    OPERATOR FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +374% · 73% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • LL
    Localization Lab Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue +215%
  • VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue +52% · 42% of their budget
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
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

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.

International
2
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
3
Meedan Inc

To strengthen journalism, digital literacy and information accessibility for global communities.

Science & Tech
4
Sentinel Research

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Global Voice
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6
Freedom of the Press Foundation

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…

Human Services
7
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
8
China Digital Times Inc

CDT is an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world.

Arts & Culture
9
Electronic Privacy Information Center

Epic's mission is to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age for all people through advocacy, research, and litigation.

Civil Rights
10
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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11
The Conversationalist
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12
Eurasianet Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Now; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 89 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
43/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $6,236,028 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INCPARTNERSGLOBAL: $3,576,712 · InternationalPARTNERSGLOBALMercy Corps: $2,850,757 · InternationalMercy CorpsFREEDOM HOUSE: $1,866,275 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSERESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $1,203,450 · InternationalRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC+14 more: $1,288,509 · International+14 moreOLIVER AND COADY INC: $1,200,273 · OtherOLIVER AND COADY INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $449,543 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVE…CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $435,445 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYGRUPO CONEXO LLC: $362,241 · OtherGRUPO CONEXO LLCNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $319,968 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATI…CONNECTIFY INC: $317,745 · OtherCONNECTIFY INCBREAKTHROUGH MEDIA NETWORK LTD: $289,085 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH MEDIA N…+31 more: $1,630,598 · Other+31 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,745,267 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSIT…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,016,166 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $399,954 · EducationUniversity of …CLEAR GLOBAL INC: $269,204 · EducationCLEAR GLOBAL I…+7 more: $228,688 · Education+7 moreOPERATOR FOUNDATION: $1,756,419 · Community ImprovementSEMBRAMEDIA: $179,875 · Arts & CultureINVENTARIO: $121,382 · Arts & CultureMEDIA ALLIANCE: $59,945 · Arts & CultureNON-STOP MEDIA INC: $59,226 · Arts & CultureCENTRO DE PERIODISMO INVESTIGATIVO INC: $24,970 · Arts & CultureARMANDO INFO INC: $23,575 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $69,273 · Arts & CultureLocalization Lab Inc: $110,000 · Civil RightsBrave New Software Project Inc: $59,998 · Civil RightsVoces de la Memoria INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsACCESS NOW: $23,867 · Civil RightsTHE ENGINE ROOM INC: $112,000 · Human ServicesBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $26,611 · Human ServicesDocumented LTD: $6,000 · Human Services
International$17,021,731Other$5,004,898Education$3,659,279Community Improvement$1,756,419Arts & Culture$538,246Civil Rights$218,865Human Services$144,611

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $6,236,028 over 7y, 12% of budgetPARTNERSGLOBAL: $3,576,712 over 5y, 17% of budgetMercy Corps: $2,850,757 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $1,866,275 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetOPERATOR FOUNDATION: $1,756,419 over 8y, 73% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,745,267 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $1,203,450 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,016,166 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $399,954 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $319,968 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAR GLOBAL INC: $269,204 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetARTICLE 19 INC: $199,718 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSEMBRAMEDIA: $179,875 over 2y, 11% of budgetGLOBAL NETWORK INITIATIVE INC: $171,613 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetGISA INC: $143,286 over 2y, 12% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM: $126,077 over 2y, 77% of budgetHORIZONTAL: $122,906 over 3y, 13% of budgetINVENTARIO: $121,382 over 3y, 31% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $112,594 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ENGINE ROOM INC: $112,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetVALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION: $101,201 over 1y, 42% of budgetPHANDEEYAR FOUNDATION: $99,359 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCALYX INSTITUTE: $89,830 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetE-COLLABORATIVE FOR CIVIC EDUCATION CORP: $84,048 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAmerican Bar Association: $82,061 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCCODOTINFO INC: $61,604 over 1y, 11% of budgetBrave New Software Project Inc: $59,998 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDIA ALLIANCE: $59,945 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLEDE NEW ORLEANS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSJAC: $51,098 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR DIGITAL RESILIENCEINC: $48,378 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRIGHTS ACTION LAB INC: $46,200 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMOTHER NATURE CAMBODIA INC: $44,604 over 2y, 24% of budgetInternational Rivers Network: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSCIENCE & DESIGN INC: $39,791 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC: $36,484 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPERBLOOM DESIGN: $30,077 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCubanet News Inc: $29,033 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $26,611 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVoces de la Memoria INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRISEUP LABS: $24,954 over 1y, 11% of budgetDTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $24,915 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBilingual Broadcasting Foundation Inc: $24,288 over 1y, 24% of budgetACCESS NOW: $23,867 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARMANDO INFO INC: $23,575 over 1y, 11% of budgetRUSSIAN-AMERICAN SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CORP: $20,578 over 1y, 17% of budgetRURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATIO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $16,500 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Ford FoundationNational Endowment fo…Foundation to Promote…New Venture FundThe Miami Foundation …John D and Catherine …Pact IncMozilla FoundationThe Patrick J McGover…Open Society InstituteThe Lenfest Institute…Institute for Nonprof…
The Ford FoundationNY26.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Internews Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Internews Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Cubanet News Inc: 67% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Phandeeyar Foundation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 89 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home