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New York · Public charity

Media Development Investment Fund Inc

Mdif provides affordable financing and technical assistance to independent news and information organizations in challenging environments, helping them to become financially sustainable. See schedule o for continuation.

$1.1M
Granted FY2017
1
Itemized grants FY2017
1
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$100k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$100,000
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$54M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Correspondent$100,0001n/a

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About Media Development Investment Fund Inc

How much does Media Development Investment Fund Inc give?
Media Development Investment Fund Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $100,000, out of $1,096,394 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Media Development Investment Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Media Development Investment Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: The Correspondent ($100k).
Where is Media Development Investment Fund Inc based?
Media Development Investment Fund Inc is based in NY.

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 1 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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