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· Public charity

Society of Professional Journalists Foundation Inc

To aid, encourage and promote the education and training of persons who intend to enter or are already in the field of journalism.

$588k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$527k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.1MCommunity Improvement$15kPublic Benefit$11kCivil Rights$9k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $562,605, the rows itemized in this filing. The $587,605 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $250k+1 grant · $527k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS$526,855
WILDFIRE MEDIA$7,500
NATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION$7,500
COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION$7,500
NLGJA THE ASSOCIATION OF LGBTQ JOURNALISTS$7,500
JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS$5,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW ENGLAND FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION: $2k → 11%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $6k → 12%NATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 13%NLGJA THE ASSOCIATION OF LGBTQ JOURNALISTS: $8k → 14%WILDFIRE MEDIA: $15k → 10%SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: $316k → 16%NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS FOUNDATION: $33k → 6%PBS NEWSHOUR (WETA): $3k → 7%NLGJA THE ASSOCIATION OF LGBTQ JOURNALISTS: $6k → 14%WILDFIRE MEDIA: $8k → 10%SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: $46k → 16%NATIONAL LESBIAN & GAY JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: $38k → 16%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

NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
VA
DC
OK
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 56% of Society of Professional Journalists Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 35%.

Society of Professional Journalists Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+30%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsEmploymentOther
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

  • SO
    SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue -10% · 50% of their budget
  • WM
    WILDFIRE MEDIA
    2× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue -98%
  • NL
    National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association
    3× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NP
    NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -18%
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +30%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +37%
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.

1
News Leaders Association

The mission of the news leaders association (nla) is to provide support and training for all sorts of news leaders at every level of an organization to build trust in journalism in service of democracy.through its support of the first…

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2
National Press Photographers Association Inc

The national press photographers association is dedicated to the advancement of visual journalism, its creation, practice, training, editing and distribution, in all news media and works to promote its role as a vital public service.

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3
National Newspaper Publishers Association Inc

Organization's mission:the national publishers association (nnpa) is a federation of nearly 200 black community newspapers from across the united states. the organization was organized to provide a national forum for african-americans in…

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4
Journalism New England

The organization is non-profit organization working to build and sustain local news and ensure that local news organizations across new england are supported with the kinds of tailored problem-solving, training and partnerships they need…

Civil Rights
5
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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6
Nebraska Press Assoc Foundation

Promote journalism in nebraska through scholarships, awards for excellence in journalism and support for journalism programs.

Education
7
National Newspaper Publishers Association Fund Inc

Support of Minority Press and Journalism

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8
National Association of Black Journalists Los Angeles

The organization's mission is to promote general advancement of black journalists including promoting public understanding, education, research in the field of journalism.

Employment
9
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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10
Alabama Press Association Journalism Foundation Inc

The foundation provides educational opportunities for qualifying students through grants, scholarships, and internship programs.

Education
11
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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12
The National Press Foundation Inc

To increase journalists knowledge of complex issues to improve public understanding and to encourage excellence in journalism through awards and programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of Professional Journalists; the most unlike its peers is New England First Amendment Coalition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: $1,041,407 · OtherSOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS+2 more: $26,492 · OtherWILDFIRE MEDIA: $22,500 · Arts & CultureNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $14,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS FOUNDATION INC: $33,200 · EducationNATIONAL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COALITION: $11,450 · Civil RightsJournalism Funding Partners: $5,750 · EmploymentNEW ENGLAND FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION INC: $1,500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,067,899Arts & Culture$39,500Education$33,200Civil Rights$11,450Employment$5,750Public Benefit$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: $1,041,407 over 6y, 50% of budgetNATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS FOUNDATION INC: $33,200 over 1y, 13% of budgetNational Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association: $18,992 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: $14,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COALITION: $11,450 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Democracy Fund IncGannett Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Democracy Fund IncDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Democracy Fund Inc · Gannett Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 10 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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