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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
NY
CT
CA
AZ
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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5
Latinas Usa
Community Improvement
6
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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8
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Enlace Latino Nc Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New Media Ventures funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Media Ventures. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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