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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $114,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $286,521 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $172,521 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.
$38,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WGVU PUBLIC MEDIA$38,000
COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC$38,000
RADIO CATSKILL$38,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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

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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.
03Its 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.

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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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is White Ash Broadcasting Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION: $38,000 · OtherGEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $38,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYSalt Pond Community Broadcasting Co: $38,000 · OtherSalt Pond Community Broadcasting CoVermont Public Radio: $38,000 · OtherVermont Public RadioLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN SHREVEPORT: $38,000 · OtherLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN SHREVEPORTWJCT INC: $38,000 · OtherWJCT INCELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $38,000 · OtherELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLSTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $38,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEKANZA Society Inc: $38,000 · OtherKANZA Society IncBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $38,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCAT…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $38,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO: $38,000 · Arts & CultureKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIOKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $38,000 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIOWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc: $38,000 · Arts & CultureWhite Ash Broadcasting IncCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO: $38,000 · Arts & CultureCOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIOCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INCFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQR: $38,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Public Radio DBA WHQRVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $38,000 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA CORPORATIONPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION: $38,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATIONRADIO CATSKILL WJFF: $38,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO CATSKILL WJFFJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY RADIO INCALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $35,378 · Arts & CultureALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INCOklahoma State University Foundation: $38,000 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $38,000 · EducationRURAL CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING CORPORATIO: $38,000 · InternationalIDEASTREAM: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $6,000 · Human Services
Other$418,000Arts & Culture$415,378Education$76,000International$38,000Youth Development$38,000Human Services$6,000

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

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

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

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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 27 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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