How much did THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 151 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k39 grants · $307k
$10k–50k111 grants · $1.8M
$50k–250k1 grant · $175k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS$175,078
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE$42,992
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL$35,194
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES$32,530
INVESTIGATE WEST$31,925
NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS$30,621
WISCONSIN WATCH$30,477
MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS$29,174
KOSU RADIO$28,058
BUFFALO'S FIRE$27,398
ENLACE NC$26,859
WHQR PUBLIC MEDIA$26,024
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE$25,543
THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS$25,037
BERKELEYSIDE$24,011

02The need

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 (FY23–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.4M · 113 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +72% for the ones you funded once.

113 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113

Total granted

$4.4M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+72%

Still filing today

51%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $553k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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THE MISSOURI INDEPENDENT
2× · 2023–2024 · $97k · revenue +293%
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +118%
WW
WISCONSIN WATCH
2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +890%

Funded once

AP
ASSOCIATED PRESS
one grant, 2023 · $384k
BC
BAY CITY NEWS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +14%
MN
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS INC
one grant, 2023 · $29k

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

04Your 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.

Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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Civic News Company

At civic news company, our mission is helping people understand how america works so they can make it work better. we do so by providing deep local coverage of important issues to increase public understanding of and participation in civic…

Education

Independence Public Media of

Arts & Culture

Denver Press Club

Denver Press Club has provided a business setting that has fostered an environment which promotes healthy business relationships. In addition, the organization provides scholarships promoting journalism and events that benefits the Arts,…

Arts & Culture

National Newspaper Association

The foundation is the educational arm of the national newspaper association. its mission is to promote news literacy, and enhance the quality, role and capabilities of community newspapers and community journalists through education.

Arts & Culture

Indij Public Media

INDIJ Public Media is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia news enterprise. We reach audiences through our digital platform and as a broadcast carried via public television stations. The mission is to serve Indigenous communities with…

Arts & Culture

Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights

New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful, see schedule o.

Arts & Culture

Society of Professional Journalists

To aid, encourage and promote education and training in the field of journalism.

Arts & Culture

Arkansas Nonprofit News Network

Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

Arts & Culture

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture

The Int'l Center for Journalists Inc

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/169

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,396

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

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

96/96

Grantees still filing

85/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,560,529Arts & Culture$1,846,394Education$580,335Public Benefit$90,574Human Services$62,142Animals$56,247Community Improvement$40,000

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

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.

The Miami Foundation IncFL94× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: 100 DAYS IN APPALACHIA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862375296 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on 100 DAYS IN APPALACHIA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Groundtruth Project Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Groundtruth Project Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Groundtruth Project Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Groundtruth Project Inc?

More from the funding graph