Michigan · Public charity
Local Media Association
LOCAL MEDIA ASSOCIATION is intensely focused on helping media companies discover new and sustainable business models. The future of local journalism depends on this.
- $373k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $282k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 41
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Local Media Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $282k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $226k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.0M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.7M | 98% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.1M | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$678kPublic Benefit$241kReligion$159kPhilanthropy$50kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$50kSocial Science$32kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Defender Network | $265,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Amnews Corpdba New York Amsterdam News | $205,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lee Publishing Company Inc | $170,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Voice News Network | $156,860 | 4 | 26% |
| Afro American Company of Baltimore City | $151,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tiloben Publishing Company Inc | $141,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Michigan Chronicle Publishing Co | $128,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The St Louis American | $105,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ad-Mast Publishing Cothe Dallas Weekly | $105,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Washington Informer | $91,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Defender Network | $265,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Amnews Corpdba New York Amsterdam News | $205,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lee Publishing Company Inc | $170,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Voice News Network | $156,860 | 4 | 26% |
| Afro American Company of Baltimore City | $151,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tiloben Publishing Company Inc | $141,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Michigan Chronicle Publishing Co | $128,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The St Louis American | $105,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ad-Mast Publishing Cothe Dallas Weekly | $105,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Washington Informer | $91,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Afro American Co Baltimore City | $65,740 | 2 | n/a |
| Enlace Latino Nc Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| McKenna Publishing Company | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dorsey Media LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Record Journal | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Land Cle | $50,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Chatman Media Group LLC Dba Chatman News | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Block Club Chicago Nfp | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gazette Communications Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The State Port Pilot Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yakima Herald Republic | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Investigative Newsource | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Searchlight New Mexico News | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Restoration Newsmedia | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Concord Publishing House Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Documented LTD | $50,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Canopy Atlanta | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Muckrock Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Charlottesville Tomorrow | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Mendocino News Media LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewiston Tribune | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Community Media | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Deep South Today | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Inkmango Inc the Juggernaut | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Bedford Light | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Indian Country Media | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Phoenix-Times Publishing Co Dba East Bay Media Group | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Post Publishing Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Next City Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Keene Publishing Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Embarcadero Media Dpa Palto Alto Weekly | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Accelerate Action Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Examiner Media LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cardinal Productions Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Sun-Times Holdings LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kalita Mukul Creative | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eo Media Group LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 365 Media Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Montana Free Press | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Shaw Suburban Media Group | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The War Horse News Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Michigan Banner | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Qcitymetro | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Capital Journal | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Osteen Publishing Co Dba the Sumnter I | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grist Magazine Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| El Paso Matters Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Pamplin Media Group | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Word in Black Pbc | $34,880 | 2 | n/a |
| Impremedia la Opinion | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia Inc | $18,575 | 2 | n/a |
| La Noticia Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Washington Informer Newspaper Co Inc | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Local Media Foundation | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan Chronicle Publishing Co | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borderless Magazine NFP | $13,750 | 1 | 1% |
| Khq Incorporated | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| El Comercio De Colorado | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bar Media Inc | $12,245 | 2 | n/a |
| Amelimedia Communications LLC Dba la Prensa | $11,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Blavity Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Interactive One LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Earl G Graves Publishing Co | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Essence Communications Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Independent Arts & Media | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nextshark Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Univision Interactive Media Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Entertainment Studios Digital Media LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Investigative Project on Race & Equity | $8,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Cruz Local Inc | $6,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Lambda Publications Incdba Windy City | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Tagg Communication LLC | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Gay Newsmasco Communications | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Voice | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| BTownsend SoCal Enterprises | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Charlotte Post Publishing Company Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown Publishing Company LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Local Media Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.
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 Media FoundationMI53.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Local Media Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · Alternative Newsweekly Foundation · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Borealis Philanthropy · American Journalism Project Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · American Press Institute Inc · Pro Publica Inc
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.
About Local Media Association
- How much does Local Media Association give?
- Local Media Association reported 21 itemized grants totaling $281,770, out of $373,258 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 41 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Local Media Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Education (17%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are Local Media Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Houston Defender Network ($265k), Amnews Corpdba New York Amsterdam News ($205k), Lee Publishing Company Inc ($170k).
- Does Local Media Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Local Media Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Local Media Foundation, The Miami Foundation Inc, Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc.
- Where is Local Media Association based?
- Local Media Association is based in MI.
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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