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The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice

Our mission is to build a powerful movement for a more just and participatory media and digital world.

$74k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23
Arts & CultureCivil RightsSocial ScienceEmploymentPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$6k0%
FY20237$201k57%
FY202112$261k100%
FY20203$19kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$182kArts & Culture$158kPublic Benefit$61kPhilanthropy$25kCrime & Legal$20kHealth$16kHuman Services$15kInternational$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
KY
AZ
NM

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Next River$100,00017%
Voices for Racial Justice$50,00013%
Center for the Rights of Abused Children$43,50013%
San Jose Community Media Access Corporation$43,00021%
Line Break Media$39,7502n/a
Dignity and Power Now$26,50020%
Appalshop Inc$20,50011%
Movement Alliance Project$20,50010%
Communities United for People$20,00014%
Pillsbury United Communities$20,00010%
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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNext River: $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVoices for Racial Justice: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCenter for the Rights of Abused Children: $43,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSan Jose Community Media Access Corporation: $43,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDignity and Power Now: $26,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAppalshop Inc: $20,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMovement Alliance Project: $20,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities United for People: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPillsbury United Communities: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEqualhealth Inc: $15,900 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetUrbana-Champaign Independent Media Center: $15,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPueblos de Lucha y Esperanza Minnesota: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGlobal Action Project Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSt Paul Neighborhood Network: $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElla Baker Center for Human Rights: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRyse Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Borealis PhilanthropyMN13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice

How much does The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice give?
The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,000, out of $73,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (36%), Arts & Culture (31%), Public Benefit (12%).
Who are The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Next River ($100k), Voices for Racial Justice ($50k), Center for the Rights of Abused Children ($44k).
Does The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Borealis Philanthropy, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
Where is The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice based?
The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice is based in CA.

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 20 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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