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New Media Ventures

We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.

Arts & Culture$250kPublic Benefit$75kEnvironment$50kCrime & Legal$50kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCRUTINIZE A PROJECT OF THE URBAN$50,000
RETRO REPORT$50,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FACTCHEQUEADO: $50k → 12%MICHAEL LATT LEGACY FUND: $10k → 14%SCRUTINIZE A PROJECT OF THE URBAN: $50k → 17%RETRO REPORT: $50k → 9%ENLACE LATINO NC INC: $50k → 8%HOLA CAROLINA: $50k → 12%TEXAS SIGNAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%DIRTROAD ORGANIZING: $25k → 9%PALABRA BY NAHJ ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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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Latino Political Network
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2
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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3
Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights
4
The Conversationalist
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Latinas Usa
Community Improvement
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Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
7
El Observador Foundation

Provide support to journalist

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Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
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9
Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers
Arts & Culture
10
The Latino Newsletter Inc

The Latino Newsletter is a nonprofit media platform amplifying the voices of underrepresented Latino communities through high-quality journalism, commentary, and multimedia projects. We provide culturally relevant and accessible content to…

Arts & Culture
11
Prism Reports Inc

Through in-depth and thought-provoking journalism, prism reflects the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice. As an independent and nonprofit newsroom LED by journalists of color, we tell stories from the ground up: to…

Education
12
Center for Emerging Media Inc
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Enlace Latino Nc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Retro Report 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

11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENLACE LATINO NC INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureENLACE LATINO NC INCHola Carolina — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHola CarolinaArizona Local Post — $50,000 · Arts & CultureArizona Local PostFACTCHEQUEADO — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFACTCHEQUEADORETRO REPORT INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureRETRO REPORT INCNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC JOURNALISTS — $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF…URBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $50,000 · OtherURBAN JUSTICE CENTERDeceleration — $50,000 · Civil RightsDecelerationDIRT ROAD ORGANIZING — $25,000 · Civil RightsDIRT ROAD ORGANIZ…NORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH MAIN …LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$250,000Other$100,000Civil Rights$75,000Community Improvement$50,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENLACE LATINO NC INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHola Carolina — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetDeceleration — $50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetArizona Local Post — $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetFACTCHEQUEADO — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDIRT ROAD ORGANIZING — $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Miami Foundation …Institute for Nonprof…Silicon Valley Commun…
The Miami Foundation IncFL15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 New Media Ventures 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.

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no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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