· Private foundation
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation Inc
To educate newspaper employees, promote literacy and diversity, endorse journalistic ethics, champion first amendment values and encourage new ideas to meet the changing needs of the industry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
- $250k+1 grant · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS FOUNDATION | $475,000 |
| CENTER FOR INTEGRITY IN NEWS REPORTING | $65,000 |
| TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| NLGJA THE ASSOCIATION OF LGBTQ JOURNALISTS | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k 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
- ANAMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +28% · 37% of their budget
- ANAMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $565k
- FPFLORDIA PRESS ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2022 · $97k
Funded once
- FPFLORDIA PRESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MEMPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- LMLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +368%
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.
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…
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…
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
The new york newspaper publishers association is a trade association which provides information and technical assistance to the newspaper industry and related organizations.
To improve member newspapers
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To inspire news media companies to embrace business practices that sustain impactful journalism. inma leverages its global membership network to: 1) build communities of best practice and facilitate the exchange of ideas, expertise,…
Inform the public by providing news
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…
To advance public policies to counter the collapse of local news, revitalize community journalism, and strengthen democracy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America's Newspapers Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Spartanburg County Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INTEGRITY IN NEWS REPORTING ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Tiny News Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PRESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PRESS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
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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 Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation 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.
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.