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Pro Publica Inc
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- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $69,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,158
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 23
- Total assets, FY2025
- $135M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Pro Publica Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $2.0M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.6M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.2M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.6M | 74% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $1.0M | 94% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $390k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $590,272 | 7 | 0% |
| Anchorage Daily News LLC | $566,480 | 7 | n/a |
| Oahu Publications Inc | $373,270 | 4 | n/a |
| Tribune Publishing Company LLC | $297,751 | 5 | n/a |
| The Seattle Times | $278,974 | 4 | n/a |
| Deep South Today | $274,510 | 3 | 1% |
| City Report Inc | $273,600 | 2 | 3% |
| Nashville Public Radio | $257,195 | 5 | 1% |
| States Newsroom | $249,063 | 3 | 0% |
| SIJ Holdings | $242,998 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $590,272 | 7 | 0% |
| Anchorage Daily News LLC | $566,480 | 7 | n/a |
| Oahu Publications Inc | $373,270 | 4 | n/a |
| Tribune Publishing Company LLC | $297,751 | 5 | n/a |
| The Seattle Times | $278,974 | 4 | n/a |
| Deep South Today | $274,510 | 3 | 1% |
| City Report Inc | $273,600 | 2 | 3% |
| Nashville Public Radio | $257,195 | 5 | 1% |
| States Newsroom | $249,063 | 3 | 0% |
| SIJ Holdings | $242,998 | 4 | n/a |
| Illinois Press Foundation Inc | $237,346 | 3 | 7% |
| Connecticut News Project Inc | $225,600 | 3 | 5% |
| Mountain State Spotlight Inc | $222,015 | 4 | 7% |
| Lee Enterprises Inc | $212,147 | 4 | n/a |
| The Salt Lake Tribune Inc | $205,782 | 4 | 1% |
| Grey Matters Project Inc | $196,783 | 4 | 9% |
| Honolulu Civil Beat Inc | $173,600 | 2 | 2% |
| Muckrock Foundation Inc | $165,361 | 3 | 2% |
| Wcij Inc | $148,252 | 3 | 2% |
| Richmond Times-Dispatch | $146,442 | 3 | n/a |
| New Mexico In Depth Inc | $128,796 | 2 | 14% |
| Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting | $126,204 | 3 | 13% |
| Advance Local Media | $117,996 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethel Broadcasting Inc | $116,250 | 2 | 4% |
| Informed California Foundation DBA - Open Vallejo | $115,320 | 2 | 46% |
| Invisible Institute | $115,225 | 2 | 3% |
| Journal Inc Dba Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal | $111,930 | 2 | n/a |
| Amnews Corpdba New York Amsterdam News | $111,600 | 2 | n/a |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | $108,891 | 2 | n/a |
| Arizona Local Post | $107,715 | 2 | 16% |
| Frontier Media Group | $105,290 | 3 | 9% |
| The Advocate | $103,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Capital & Main | $102,250 | 3 | 2% |
| New York Public Radio | $97,176 | 1 | 0% |
| Bangor Publishing Company Dba Bangor Daily News | $97,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $93,275 | 2 | 1% |
| New York Focus Inc | $93,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Street Roots Inc | $93,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Kentucky Public Radio Inc | $92,256 | 2 | 1% |
| Bay City News Foundation | $92,256 | 1 | 21% |
| Documented LTD | $92,251 | 2 | 4% |
| Gannett Shared Services Center (Desert Sun Publishing Llc) | $92,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $92,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Miami Herald Media | $92,246 | 2 | n/a |
| Searchlight New Mexico News | $92,102 | 2 | 7% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $90,540 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern California Public Radio | $89,028 | 2 | 0% |
| Asbury Park Press | $88,560 | 2 | n/a |
| Rhode Island Public Radio | $85,944 | 1 | 2% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $83,453 | 2 | n/a |
| San Fransisco Public Press | $83,120 | 2 | n/a |
| The Sacramento Bee | $82,416 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collab | $82,349 | 2 | 0% |
| Mc Clatchy Interactive | $81,144 | 2 | n/a |
| Arizona Daily Star | $77,291 | 1 | n/a |
| New Bedford Light | $73,800 | 2 | 4% |
| Coastalaska Inc | $73,317 | 2 | 1% |
| Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio | $69,750 | 1 | 0% |
| High Country News | $69,487 | 2 | 1% |
| Max Blau Mbw LLC | $64,575 | 1 | n/a |
| Vpm Media Corporation | $64,140 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Communications Inc | $62,220 | 1 | 1% |
| Mississippi Journalism and Education Group | $59,040 | 1 | 4% |
| Beacon Media Inc | $55,760 | 1 | 6% |
| The Business Journal | $53,813 | 2 | n/a |
| South Bend Tribune | $53,734 | 1 | n/a |
| The Charleston Gazette-Mail | $53,652 | 1 | n/a |
| Charleston Newspapers | $53,218 | 1 | n/a |
| The Courier-Journal | $52,884 | 1 | n/a |
| The Palm Beach Post | $52,789 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Lift Corp | $52,275 | 2 | 2% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $51,548 | 1 | n/a |
| The Arizona Republic | $50,858 | 2 | n/a |
| The New Mexican Inc | $49,776 | 1 | n/a |
| Malheur Media LLC | $46,652 | 1 | n/a |
| North Carolina Longform Magazine | $46,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Gazette Media Holdings LLC Dba Denver Gazette | $46,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Post and Courier Inc | $46,128 | 1 | n/a |
| The Center for Michigan | $46,043 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Journalism Trust | $30,483 | 1 | n/a |
| Northeast Florida Journalism Collective Inc | $23,948 | 1 | n/a |
| The Philadelphia Inquirer | $23,948 | 1 | n/a |
| Kqed Inc | $23,948 | 1 | 0% |
| Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc | $21,525 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission | $15,991 | 1 | n/a |
| Bryant Furlow LLC | $12,648 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Texas | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Antonio Express-News | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Worth Report | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wfaa-Tv | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Pro Publica Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Pro Publica Inc
- How much does Pro Publica Inc give?
- Pro Publica Inc reported 33 itemized grants totaling $1,983,891, out of $2,052,391 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pro Publica Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Public Benefit (22%), Community Improvement (2%).
- Who are Pro Publica Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Oregon Public Broadcasting ($590k), Anchorage Daily News LLC ($566k), Oahu Publications Inc ($373k).
- Does Pro Publica Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pro Publica Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Groundtruth Project Inc, The Miami Foundation Inc, Institute for Nonprofit News.
- Where is Pro Publica Inc based?
- Pro Publica Inc is based in NY.
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