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Panonica Foundation

Promote a more informed public by supporting responsible journalism and civil rights liberties and social and economic justice for all in the u.s.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$410k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.1MCivil Rights$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$582kReligion$450kCrime & Legal$420kAnimals$251kHuman Services$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $505k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.1M
$25,300
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Senate Majority PAC$410,400
House Majority PAC$410,400
Foundation for National Progress Mother Jones Magazine$250,000
William J Brennan Jr Center for Justice$250,000
Consumer Reports Inc$250,000
Pro Publica Inc$250,000
Public Religion Research Institute Inc$250,000
American Civil Liberties Union$225,000
Committee to Protect Journalists$200,000
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press$130,000
The Innocence Project Inc$125,000
Center for Constitutional Rights$125,000
National Public Radio Inc$125,000
Texas Civil Rights Project$125,000
National Consumer Law Center$120,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%National Partnership of New Americans: $10k → 14%The Innocence Project Inc: $125k → 17%Innocence Project: $100k → 17%Innocence Project Inc: $12k → 17%Innocence Project Inc: $10k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
NJ
CA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 32 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
7

Total granted

$5.3M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+0%

Still filing today

94%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PRO PUBLICA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $493k · revenue +71%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $459k · revenue +65%
  • NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $342k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NP
    NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +2%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +0%
  • WO
    WEST ORANGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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3
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
4
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
7
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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8
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
9
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
10
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
11
The Associated Press Foundation for Journalism Inc

The foundation's mission is to produce, support and promote high-quality journalism focused on underserved issue and focus areas in order to educate and inform the public and ensure widespread, ongoing public access to educational,…

Arts & Culture
12
The Marshall Project Inc

The marshall project is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization covering criminal justice.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro Publica Inc; the most unlike its peers is Archie Edwards Blues Heritage 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
53/53
Grantees still filing
26/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMP: $510,400 · OtherSMPHMP: $410,400 · OtherHMPThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $263,000 · OtherThe Center for Investigative Reporting In…THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $230,000 · OtherTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF TH…OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $229,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $246,500 · OtherTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INCNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250,600 · OtherNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUE…+14 more: $319,000 · Other+14 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $458,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL L…COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PRO…CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $125,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONST…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $71,500 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFE…AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $35,750 · Civil Rights+7 more: $113,800 · Civil Rights+7 morePRO PUBLICA INC: $493,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $145,200 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC…MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC: $75,750 · Arts & CultureMUSIC MAKER FOU…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CE…SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION: $47,300 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $108,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $555,750 · Public BenefitCONSUMER REPO…The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $250,000 · Public BenefitThe Center fo…+1 more: $20,750 · Public BenefitWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $460,000 · EducationWILLIAM J …UCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…THE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $24,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · Education+3 more: $42,000 · Education+3 moreNATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC: $341,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $41,000 · Crime & LegalASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $35,750 · Crime & LegalTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $32,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $450,000 · Religion
Other$2,458,900Civil Rights$1,004,550Arts & Culture$919,250Public Benefit$826,500Education$627,000Crime & Legal$450,250Religion$450,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $555,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $493,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $460,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $458,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC: $341,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $263,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250,600 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $246,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $230,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $229,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $145,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $125,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC: $75,750 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $71,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION: $47,300 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInnocence Project of Texas: $40,750 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $35,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $35,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER: $25,300 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARCHIE EDWARDS BLUES HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $21,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPENSECRETS: $20,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST ORANGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $17,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA NEWS BUREAU INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCharity Navigator: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Ford FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Mgm Resorts FoundationFoundation to Promote…John D and Catherine …The Miami Foundation …Tides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal Fund
The Ford FoundationNY17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 Panonica Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Panonica Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • National Consumer Law Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Panonica Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Panonica Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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