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Storycorps Inc

Storycorps' mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more compassionate and just world.

$287k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$719kEducation$190kPublic Benefit$76kHuman Services$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $114,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $286,521 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $172,521 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$38,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RADIO CATSKILL$38,000
COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC$38,000
WGVU PUBLIC MEDIA$38,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
3
Public Radio Inc

WRKF strives to entertain and to inform its audience through local, national, and international news and cultural programming.

Arts & Culture
4
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc

To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms

Arts & Culture
5
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
6
Kwmr

Noncommercial radio station serving the west marin community.

Arts & Culture
7
Spokane Public Radio

The mission of Spokane Public Radio is to provide high-quality, artistic, educational and informational radio programming, which enhances and enlivens the cultural life and civic discourse of its listening communities. Spokane Public Radio…

Arts & Culture
8
Peconic Public Broadcasting

Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.

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9
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
10
Prairie Public Broadcasting Inc

Prairie Public Broadcasting provides quality radio, television, and public media services that educate, involve, and inspire the people of the prairie region.

Arts & Culture
11
Community Radio for Northern Colorado

Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…

Arts & Culture
12
Hawaii Public Radio

The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is White Ash Broadcasting Inc and the most unlike its peers is New American Pathways Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,538

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN SHREVEPORT — $38,000 · OtherLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN SHREVEPORTWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $38,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYKANZA Society Inc — $38,000 · OtherKANZA Society IncVermont Public Radio — $38,000 · OtherVermont Public RadioBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION — $38,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCAT…ELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $38,000 · OtherELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLSGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY — $38,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $38,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEESalt Pond Community Broadcasting Co — $38,000 · OtherSalt Pond Community Broadcasting CoWJCT INC — $38,000 · OtherWJCT INCGEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION — $38,000 · OtherGEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $38,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATIONRADIO CATSKILL WJFF — $38,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO CATSKILL WJFFKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $38,000 · Arts & CultureKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIOFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR — $38,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQRCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC — $38,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INCJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY RADIO INC — $38,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY RADIO INCVPM MEDIA CORPORATION — $38,000 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA CORPORATIONCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO — $38,000 · Arts & CultureCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIOWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc — $38,000 · Arts & CultureWhite Ash Broadcasting IncKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $38,000 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIOALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $35,378 · Arts & CultureALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INCOklahoma State University Foundation — $38,000 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $38,000 · EducationIDEASTREAM — $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentRURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATIO — $38,000 · InternationalNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC — $6,000 · Human Services
Other$418,000Arts & Culture$415,378Education$76,000Youth Development$38,000International$38,000Human Services$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIDEASTREAM — $38,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $38,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRADIO CATSKILL WJFF — $38,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO — $38,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKANZA Society Inc — $38,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetRURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATIO — $38,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $38,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR — $38,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY RADIO INC — $38,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION — $38,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSalt Pond Community Broadcasting Co — $38,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO — $38,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc — $38,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWJCT INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $38,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $35,378 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Corporation for Publi…Ibm International Fou…Cars for Charity IncNational Public Radio…Greater Washington Ed…The Groundtruth Proje…Public Broadcasting S…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Corporation for Public BroadcastingDC40.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Ibm International Foundation · Cars for Charity Inc · National Public Radio Inc · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Public Broadcasting Service · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Storycorps 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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