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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.4MEducation$497kInternational$222kScience & Tech$110kCivil Rights$100kPublic Benefit$72kHealth$59kHousing & Shelter$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $88,941, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,920,223 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,831,282 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.
$37,170
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EURASIA FOUNDATION INC$41,771
SEMBRAMEDIA$37,170
HAITIAN TIMES$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $135k → 11%THE PODCAST NETWORK LLC: $80k → 10%OUTLIER MEDIA LLC: $100k → 8%CARIBE COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLICATIONS INC: $100k → 16%SAHAN JOURNAL: $100k → 14%WURD RADIO: $100k → 6%NEXTSHARK INC: $100k → 10%PRISM REPORTS INC: $100k → 10%SWISH CULTURES LLC: $136k → 14%LA NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY: $100k → 14%BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS: $398k → 27%THE POST AND COURIER INC: $25k → 12%THE EURASIA FOUNDATION INC: $46k → 14%MULTIPLATFORM NEWS INC: $26k → 13%DETOUR MEDIA LLC: $25k → 8%THE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN INC: $25k → 14%BROWN IMPACT MEDIA GROUP: $200k → 16%TCV PUBLISHING INC: $100k → 16%AMERICAN PUBLISHING DBA THE ST LOUIS AMERICAN: $100k → 21%CONTEMPORA INC DBA THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER: $100k → 14%THE CHARLOTTE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY INC: $100k → 10%HOLA CAROLINA: $100k → 12%THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $40k → 8%VOICE NEWS NETWORK LNC DBA THE ATLANTA VOICE NEWSPAPER: $100k → 13%LA RAZA CHICAGO INC: $100k → 14%THUNDERBIRD MEDIA INC: $100k → 31%NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25k → 7%PUBLICSOURCE INC: $25k → 11%CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS: $376k → 27%THE EURASIA FOUNDATION INC: $44k → 14%MULTIPLATFORM NEWS INC: $34k → 15%THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $25k → 8%BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS: $345k → 27%THE EURASIA FOUNDATION INC: $42k → 14%MULTIPLATFORM NEWS INC: $28k → 15%BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS: $274k → 27%BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS: $251k → 27%THE EURASIA FOUNDATION INC: $42k → 14%SEMBRA MEDIA: $114k → 14%MIAMI TIMES INC: $100k → 15%PUSHBLACK: $100k → 14%SEMBRAMEDIA: $245k → 14%SEMBRAMEDIA: $238k → 14%SEMBRAMEDIA: $175k → 14%SEMBRAMEDIA: $39k → 14%SEMBRAMEDIA: $37k → 14%WILL PACKER MEDIA LLC: $27k → 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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MN
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MA
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CA
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CO
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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.

East Asia and the Pacific$253k · 23% · 2 grants · 23 people

Stated purpose: ASIA PACIFIC VIDEO ACCELERATOR FB 2021 · CHINA GLOBAL BUSINESS PROGRAM · GRANTS/AWARDS

South Asia$183k · 16% · 3 grants · 81 people

Stated purpose: ASIA STUDY TOUR DOS 2019 · SOUTH ASIA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DRL 2020 · SRI LANKA INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Middle East and North Africa$176k · 16% · 2 grants · 72 people

Stated purpose: KNIGHTS FELLOWSHIPS 2019 -2023 · JORDAN BRIDGING BOUNDARIES US EMBASSY, AMMAN 2023 · GRANTS/AWARDS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$169k · 15% · 4 grants · 40 people

Stated purpose: JIM HOGE LEGACY FELLOWSHIP · HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP · NORTH MACEDONIA DISINFO TRAINING

Sub-Saharan Africa$119k · 11% · 1 grant · 58 people

Stated purpose: CODE 4 AFRICA · GRANTS/AWARDS

South America$87k · 8% · 3 grants · 24 people

Stated purpose: GLOBAL DISARMING DISINFORMATION SCRIPPS 2022 · EYES OF THE WORLD AN AMAZON-BASED CITIZEN JOURNALISM PLATFORM - ICFJ 2023 · KNIGHT FELLOWSHIPS 2019-2023

North America (Canada and Mexico)$59k · 5% · 67 people

Stated purpose: GRANTS/AWARDS

Russia and Neighboring States$45k · 4% · 1 grant · 11 people

Stated purpose: ITAJ'S SUSTAINABILITY HUB 2021 · GRANTS/AWARDS

Central America and the Caribbean$20k · 2% · 8 people

Stated purpose: GRANTS/AWARDS

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 13 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
68

Total granted

$3.2M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+46%

Still filing today

38%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • BC
    BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.6M · revenue -98% · 87% of their budget
  • S
    SEMBRAMEDIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $880k · revenue ×18 · 50% of their budget
  • TE
    THE EURASIA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • BI
    BROWN IMPACT MEDIA GROUP
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • SC
    SWISH CULTURES LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $136k
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue +51%
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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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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The Conversationalist
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Kurt Schork Memorial Fund
Education
4
Trusting News Inc

Trusting News improves the quality of news reporting by studying trust in news and training and coaching journalists to demonstrate credibility and actively earn trust. Their work equips thousands of journalists every year to better…

Arts & Culture
5
Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Canary Media Inc

Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy.

Environment
7
Institute for the Advancement of Journalistic Clarity

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.

Arts & Culture
8
CalMatters

Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.

Civil Rights
9
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
10
Independent Media Institute

IMI amplifies the reach and impact of the work produced by our partner journalists,public intellectuals and editorial teams on the leading issues of our times. The goal is to educate, inspire, and collaborate with movements and visionaries…

Arts & Culture
11
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
12
States Newsroom

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tribune Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 82 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS: $1,644,483 · Arts & CultureBORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERSSEMBRAMEDIA: $880,172 · Arts & CultureSEMBRAMEDIAINDIJ PUBLIC MEDIA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHola Carolina: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRO DE PERIODISMO INVESTIGATIVO INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $159,980 · Arts & Culture+5 moreBROWN IMPACT MEDIA GROUP: $200,000 · OtherBROWN IMPACT MEDIA GROUPSWISH CULTURES LLC: $136,000 · OtherVOICE NEWS NETWORK: $115,000 · OtherTHE PODCAST NETWORK LLC: $102,000 · OtherTHE CHARLOTTE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY INC: $100,000 · OtherLA NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY: $100,000 · OtherCONTEMPORA INC DBA THE TENNESSEE TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER: $100,000 · OtherMIAMI TIMES INC: $100,000 · OtherTHUNDERBIRD MEDIA INC: $100,000 · OtherTCV PUBLISHING INC: $100,000 · OtherCARIBE COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLICATIONS INC: $100,000 · OtherLA RAZA: $100,000 · OtherOUTLIER MEDIA LLC: $100,000 · OtherWURD RADIO LLC: $100,000 · OtherNEXTSHARK INC: $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · OtherMULTIPLATFORM NEWS INC: $87,800 · Other+43 more: $754,013 · Other+43 moreARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $134,980 · EducationARIZONA STA…Sahan Journal: $100,000 · EducationSahan Journ…ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationST LOUIS AM…PRISM REPORTS INC: $100,000 · EducationPRISM REPOR…Scalawag: $100,000 · EducationScalawagCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationCRAIG NEWMA…+1 more: $7,000 · EducationTHE EURASIA FOUNDATION: $172,929 · InternationalGISA INC: $13,880 · InternationalRIPPLE EFFECT IMAGES: $9,760 · InternationalPUSHBLACK: $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$2,984,635Other$2,594,813Education$641,980International$196,569Civil Rights$100,000Public Benefit$25,000

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 budgetBORDER CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS AND BLOGGERS: $1,644,483 over 5y, 87% of budgetSEMBRAMEDIA: $880,172 over 8y, 50% of budgetTHE EURASIA FOUNDATION: $172,929 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $134,980 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICE NEWS NETWORK: $115,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSahan Journal: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetINDIJ PUBLIC MEDIA: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPUSHBLACK: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHola Carolina: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPRISM REPORTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCENTRO DE PERIODISMO INVESTIGATIVO INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetScalawag: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLICSOURCE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSan Antonio Report: $24,980 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGISA INC: $13,880 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRIPPLE EFFECT IMAGES: $9,760 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $7,000 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.

  • 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 Sahan Journal ↗
  • Who funds INDIJ PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds PUSHBLACK ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hola Carolina ↗
  • Who funds PRISM REPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE PERIODISMO INVESTIGATIVO INC ↗
  • Who funds Scalawag ↗
  • Who funds CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗

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.

The Lenfest Institute…The Miami Foundation …Solutions Journalism …Institute for Nonprof…The Groundtruth Proje…Local Independent Onl…Local Media FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyAlternative Newsweekl…The Ford FoundationJohn S and James L Kn…American Press Instit…
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of TpfPA41.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Int'L Center for Journalists Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Int'L Center for Journalists Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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 82 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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