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Local Media Association
LOCAL MEDIA ASSOCIATION is intensely focused on helping media companies discover new and sustainable business models.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON DEFENDER NEWSPAPER INC | $39,334 |
| THE SEATTLE MEDIUM | $27,668 |
| THE ATLANTA VOICE NEWSPAPER | $27,668 |
| NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS | $27,668 |
| AFRO AMERICAN COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY | $27,668 |
| MICHIGAN CHRONICLE | $18,000 |
| WORD IN BLACK PBC | $9,880 |
| MASCO COMMUNICATIONS | $6,500 |
| BTOWNSEND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES LLC | $6,000 |
| THE DALLAS WEEKLY | $6,000 |
| BROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY LLC | $6,000 |
| THE CHARLOTTE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY | $6,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON INFORMER | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY DBA ST LOUIS AMERICAN NEWSPAPER | $6,000 |
| LEE PUBLISHING INC THE OBSERVER NEWSPAPER | $6,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- HDHOUSTON DEFENDER NETWORK3× · 2022–2024 · $251k
- ACAMNEWS CORPDBA NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS3× · 2022–2024 · $191k
- LPLEE PUBLISHING COMPANY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $156k
Funded once
- BCBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFPone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -3%
- DMDORSEY MEDIA LLCone grant, 2021 · $50k
- RNRESTORATION NEWSMEDIAone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light and the most unlike its peers is Voice News Network. 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.
22 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. 22 of the 77 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 VOICE NEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds Documented LTD ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS ↗
- Who funds EL PASO MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAR HORSE NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds MUCKROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Land Cle ↗
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: 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
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 Local Media Association 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.
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.