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Pro Publica Inc
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $1,166,518 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,208,606 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,088 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $406k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $107,508 |
| DEEP SOUTH TODAY | $105,200 |
| ILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC | $99,200 |
| HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT INC | $99,200 |
| WCIJ INC DBA WISCONSIN WATCH | $80,600 |
| ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS | $77,047 |
| THE SEATTLE TIMES CO | $64,749 |
| STATES NEWSROOM | $61,693 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DBA MICHIGAN RADIO | $57,529 |
| BETHEL BROADCASTING INC DBA KYUK | $46,500 |
| CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC | $46,500 |
| BANGOR PUBLISHING COMPANY DBA BANGOR DAILY NEWS | $46,500 |
| NEW YORK FOCUS INC | $46,500 |
| NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO | $35,875 |
| THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC | $33,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k 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
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING6× · 2019–2024 · $480k · revenue +33%- NPNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO5× · 2020–2024 · $257k · revenue +14%
- MSMountain State Spotlight Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $222k · revenue +268%
Funded once
- ALADVANCE LOCAL MEDIAone grant, 2019 · $118k
- NYNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2019 · $97k · revenue -1%
- BCBAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $92k · revenue +14%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light 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.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 78 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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds City Report Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Mountain State Spotlight Inc ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds STATES NEWSROOM ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds New Mexico In Depth Inc ↗
- Who funds GREY MATTERS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING ↗
- Who funds Informed California Foundation DBA - Open Vallejo ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL & MAIN ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds WCIJ INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds BAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUCKROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Documented LTD ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCHLIGHT NEW MEXICO NEWS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
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: The Groundtruth Project Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Solutions Journalism Network Inc · Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · American Journalism Project Inc · Inasmuch Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · American Press Institute Inc · Cars for Charity Inc
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 Pro Publica 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.
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
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.