How much does Journalism Funding Partners give?

Journalism Funding Partners reported 17 grants totaling $4,012,757 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Journalism Funding Partners fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (99%), Human Services (1%), Environment (0%).

Who are Journalism Funding Partners's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: SIJ Holdings ($3.1M), Associated Press Media Editors Association C/O Paula Froke ($2.6M), The McClatchy Company ($873k).

Does Journalism Funding Partners fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Journalism Funding Partners based?

Journalism Funding Partners is based in CA.

Journalism Funding Partners

Journalism Funding Partners at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

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Journalism Funding Partners

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Journalism Funding Partners?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

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$4.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.9M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$9.8MHuman Services$66kEnvironment$23k

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $17k
$10k–50k7 grants · $204k
$50k–250k5 grants · $740k
$250k+3 grants · $3.0M

$47,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Associated Press	$1,918,484
SIJ Holdings	$596,782
Gannett Co	$479,990
URL Media	$209,000
Trusting News	$192,649
Capital BroadcastingWRAL Com	$180,460
DeCapo Publishing Inc	$101,835
NJ Urban News	$55,800
Atlanta Journal Constitution	$47,500
Seven Days Vermont	$39,618
CA Scholastic Journalism	$31,850
Tribune Publishing	$25,110
Grist Magazine	$23,250
Univision	$23,250
Individual grant recipient	$12,937

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.7M · 11 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.7M

$763k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

-23%

Still filing today

36%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

TP
THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $399k · revenue +17%
CB
CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $356k · revenue +27%
HI
HowardCenter Inc
3× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +17%

Funded once

TD
Tallahassee Democrat
one grant, 2023 · $132k
W
WSOC-TV
one grant, 2023 · $80k
SP
Sound Publishing
one grant, 2022 · $74k

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.

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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Kurt Schork Memorial Fund

Education

Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation Inc

Arts & Culture

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…

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Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers

Arts & Culture

The Hearst Foundation

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust

Philanthropy

San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education

CalMatters

Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.

Civil Rights

Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture

Canary Media Inc

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

Environment

American Spectator Foundation Inc

The American Spectator Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan media organization responsible for publishing The American Spectator. Through its editorial programs, The American Spectator strives to educate the public on new ideas,…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc; the most unlike its peers is Green South Foundation Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 31 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

6/10

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,069,484Education$440,984Arts & Culture$192,649Environment$92,732Human Services$66,455

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

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.

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Open a dossier: The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

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