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Open Campus Media Inc
Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $464k
- $250k+1 grant · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORK SHIFT LLC | $285,260 |
| CAL MATTERS | $125,000 |
| AJP -FREE PRESS INDIANAMIRROR INDY | $88,421 |
| TAMPA BAY TIMES | $77,143 |
| WBEZ (CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA) | $68,750 |
| OHIO LOCAL NEWS INITIATIVE | $54,762 |
| CITY REPORT | $50,000 |
| DEEP SOUTH TODAY | $40,000 |
| EL PASO MATTERS | $40,000 |
| PUBLICSOURCE INC | $40,000 |
| FORT WORTH REPORT | $38,462 |
| HOUSTON LOCAL INFORMATION INITIATIVE | $37,037 |
| ARIZONA LOCAL POST | $10,000 |
| MONTANA FREE PRESS | $10,000 |
| THE ASSEMBLY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of your 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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $549k 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
CalMatters3× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +9%- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +10%
- DSDEEP SOUTH TODAY2× · 2022–2024 · $69k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- CCCRAIN COMMUNICATIONSone 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.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
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…
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
The mission of the springfield daily citizen is to inform our community and be a catalyst for good.
To advance public policies to counter the collapse of local news, revitalize community journalism, and strengthen democracy.
Our mission is to deliver reliable and unbiased local news and information to empower our readers and build a stronger community. We work to fill the news gap within Owen County while increasing overall media literacy within our community.
Citizens news guild educates the public by publishing non-partisan state and local news.
The mission of investigative newsource is to produce investigative and community-powered journalism that informs citizens of san diego and imperial counties.
To create and distribute a publication committed to keeping readers informed, engaged and connected to the issues that matter most to them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deep South Today and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Local Post. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 CalMatters ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO LOCAL INFORMATIONAL INTIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS INDIANA ↗
- Who funds EL PASO MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICSOURCE ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds Houston Local Information Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds MinnPost ↗
- Who funds Arizona Local Post ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FREE PRESS ↗
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: Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami Foundation Inc · American Journalism Project Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc · Pro Publica Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Inasmuch 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 Open Campus Media Inc 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.
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