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Journalism Funding Partners
Increase the depth and diversity of local journalism by building and stewarding connections between funds and reporting, serving as a bridge and a leader in the growing realm of philanthropy - supported journalism.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $740k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
| 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 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
- TPTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $399k · revenue +10%
- CBCAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $356k · revenue +27%
- HIHowardCenter Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TDTallahassee Democratone grant, 2023 · $132k
- WWSOC-TVone grant, 2023 · $80k
- SPSound Publishingone grant, 2022 · $74k
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.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
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…
The Poynter Foundation is a 501(C)(3) dedicated to raising funds to support and inspire journalists and media leaders across the world.
Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy.
Analysis of media and government in print, radio television and electronic
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…
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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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Press Media Editors Association C/O Paula Froke and 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.
10 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. 10 of the 31 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 ASSOCIATED PRESS MEDIA EDITORS ASSOCIATION C/O PAULA FROKE ↗
- Who funds THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trusting News Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN SOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERALD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
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 Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Journalism Funding Partners 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% 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.