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Society of Environmental Journalists Inc

The mission of the society of environmental journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

$435k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$380k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$180,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Society of Environmental Journalists Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$380k0%
FY20233$536k33%
FY20225$926k0%
FY20215$627k20%
FY20206$531k67%
FY20195$671k40%
FY20183$500k67%
FY20171$170kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.5MHealth$440kEnvironment$354kInternational$71kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
WI
MI
NY
OR
CA
CO
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Capital City Press LLC Dba the Advocate$929,3962n/a
Guardianorg Foundation$900,000731%
High Country News$729,87173%
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources$542,000526%
The Advocate$354,0001n/a
Floodlight Inc$345,185139%
Murray Global Enterprises$71,1673n/a
Detroit Public Media$10,00010%
Columbia Insight$8,4321n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($451k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About Society of Environmental Journalists Inc

How much does Society of Environmental Journalists Inc give?
Society of Environmental Journalists Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $380,000, out of $435,083 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Society of Environmental Journalists Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Health (10%), Environment (8%).
Who are Society of Environmental Journalists Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Capital City Press LLC Dba the Advocate ($929k), Guardianorg Foundation ($900k), High Country News ($730k).
Does Society of Environmental Journalists Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Society of Environmental Journalists Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Miami Foundation Inc.
Where is Society of Environmental Journalists Inc based?
Society of Environmental Journalists Inc is based in DC.

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

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