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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Story Network Foundation

To educate the public and combat misinformation on issues, including, but not limited to: quality affordable healthcare, humane immigration policy, common-sense gun control, campaign finance reform, climate change, income inequality and equal rights for women, minorities, and the LGBTQ community.

$941k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$600,000
States reached, FY2020
4
Total assets, FY2020
$849k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Workmoney Inc$600,00013%
Fellow Americans$250,0001n/a
Amplifier Foundation$31,00012%
George Mason University Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Voto Latino Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Defending Democracy Together$10,00010%
Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund$10,00010%

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About Story Network Foundation

How much does Story Network Foundation give?
Story Network Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $941,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Story Network Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (64%), Public Benefit (30%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Story Network Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Workmoney Inc ($600k), Fellow Americans ($250k), Amplifier Foundation ($31k).
Where is Story Network Foundation based?
Story Network Foundation 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 7 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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