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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $73,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,500 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Equalhealth Inc$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pueblos De Lucha Y Esperanza: $15k → 11%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
KY
AZ
NM
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 4 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$125k
$361k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
0%

Still filing today

75%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsSocial ScienceInternationalHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SJ
    SAN JOSE COMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $43k · revenue -29%
  • LB
    Line Break Media
    2× · 2021–2023 · $40k
  • DA
    Dignity and Power Now
    2× · 2020–2023 · $27k · revenue -7%

Funded once

  • NR
    Next River
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • VF
    VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -54%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +62%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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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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.

Civil Rights
2
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
3
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
5
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

—
6
Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…

Crime & Legal
7
Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture
8
Pushblack

Pushblack is building a mass media network to change the hearts and minds of black americans through empowering narratives and actions that can advance black liberation at a systems-wide level.

Civil Rights
9
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
10
Prism Reports Inc

Through in-depth and thought-provoking journalism, prism reflects the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice. As an independent and nonprofit newsroom LED by journalists of color, we tell stories from the ground up: to…

Education
11
Chicago Media Project

To impact society through the powerful tools of media and film. we are a resource for uniting individuals interested in media and developing a core group of informed citizens.

Public Benefit
12
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allied Media Projects Inc; the most unlike its peers is Equalhealth 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Next River: $100,000 · Social ScienceNext RiverAPPALSHOP INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INCMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $20,500 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE…URBANA-CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER: $15,500 · Arts & CultureURBANA-CHAMPAIGN …ST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $12,000 · Arts & CultureST PAUL NEIGHBORH…ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJ…Line Break Media: $39,750 · OtherLine Break MediaPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $20,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITI…GLOBAL ACTION PROJECT INC: $12,000 · OtherGLOBAL ACTION PROJECT INCEQUALHEALTH INC: $15,900 · OtherEQUALHEALTH INCPUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA: $15,000 · OtherPUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERAN…CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 · OtherCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES C…RYSE INC: $5,500 · OtherCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN: $43,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR THE …Communities United for People: $20,000 · Civil RightsCommunities Uni…ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $6,500 · Civil RightsELLA BAKER CENT…VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $50,000 · EmploymentVOICES FOR …Dignity and Power Now: $26,500 · PhilanthropyDignity an…NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,000 · PhilanthropyNEW MEXICO…SAN JOSE COMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS CORPORATION: $43,000 · Public BenefitSAN JOSE …
Social Science$100,000Arts & Culture$78,500Other$118,150Civil Rights$70,000Employment$50,000Philanthropy$44,500Public Benefit$43,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,000 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
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.

Borealis PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 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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