· Public charity
The Int'L Center for Journalists Inc
We empower an unparalleled global network of journalists to produce news reports that lead to better governments, stronger economies, more vibrant societies and healthier lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $88,941 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,920,223 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,831,282 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EURASIA FOUNDATION INC | $41,771 |
| SEMBRAMEDIA | $37,170 |
| HAITIAN TIMES | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.1M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $625k to organizations and $486k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: ASIA PACIFIC VIDEO ACCELERATOR FB 2021 · CHINA GLOBAL BUSINESS PROGRAM · GRANTS/AWARDS
Stated purpose: ASIA STUDY TOUR DOS 2019 · SOUTH ASIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DRL 2020 · SRI LANKA INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Stated purpose: KNIGHTS FELLOWSHIPS 2019 -2023 · JORDAN BRIDGING BOUNDARIES US EMBASSY, AMMAN 2023 · GRANTS/AWARDS
Stated purpose: JIM HOGE LEGACY FELLOWSHIP · HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP · NORTH MACEDONIA DISINFO TRAINING
Stated purpose: CODE 4 AFRICA · GRANTS/AWARDS
Stated purpose: GLOBAL DISARMING DISINFORMATION SCRIPPS 2022 · EYES OF THE WORLD AN AMAZON-BASED CITIZEN JOURNALISM PLATFORM - ICFJ 2023 · KNIGHT FELLOWSHIPS 2019-2023
Stated purpose: GRANTS/AWARDS
Stated purpose: ITAJ'S SUSTAINABILITY HUB 2021 · GRANTS/AWARDS
Stated purpose: GRANTS/AWARDS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS5× · 2019–2023 · $1.6M · revenue -98% · 87% of their budget
- SSEMBRAMEDIA8× · 2017–2024 · $880k · revenue ×18 · 50% of their budget
- TETHE EURASIA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- BIBROWN IMPACT MEDIA GROUPone grant, 2021 · $200k
- SCSWISH CULTURES LLCone grant, 2021 · $136k
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
To provide credible reporting and commentary on its website (counterpunch.org) and through its podcast, helping readers make informed and balanced assessments - vital for a healthy democratic society - on the public issues of the day.
Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
States newsroom is the nation's largest state-focused nonprofit news organization, with reporting from every capital. every newsroom is led by a veteran local journalist with deep knowledge of the state's political history and media…
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
Borderless magazine nfp is a chicago-based nonprofit news outlet that is reimagining local immigration journalism for a more just and equitable future. we provide free, local and state news coverage to english and spanish speakers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tribune Inc and the most unlike its peers is Voice News Network. 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.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 82 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS ↗
- Who funds SEMBRAMEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE EURASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VOICE NEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUSHBLACK ↗
- Who funds CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE PERIODISMO INVESTIGATIVO INC ↗
- Who funds Hola Carolina ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sahan Journal ↗
- Who funds PRISM REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIJ PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Scalawag ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICSOURCE ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · The Miami Foundation Inc · Solutions Journalism Network Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Local Media Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Alternative Newsweekly Foundation · The Ford Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · American Press Institute Inc
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 The Int'L Center for Journalists 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.
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.