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The National Press Foundation Inc

To increase journalists knowledge of complex issues to improve public understanding and to encourage excellence in journalism through awards and programs.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Environment$61kArts & Culture$43kHealth$6kPublic Benefit$5kEducation$3k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $5,625 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,912 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $149,287 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.

$5,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WUNC Public Radio LLC$5,625
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Bureau for International Reporting Inc: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
GA

Grants abroad, by region — $40k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$12k · 30% · 6 people

Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases

South Asia$12k · 30% · 6 people

Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6k · 15% · 3 people

Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases

South America$4k · 10% · 2 people

Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases

East Asia and the Pacific$2k · 5% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases

Middle East and North Africa$2k · 5% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases

Central America and the Caribbean$2k · 5% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases

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.

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30k · 3 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$30k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+61%

Still filing today

33%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • DN
    DETROIT NEWSPAPER PARTNERSHIP LP
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k
  • WC
    WP Company LLC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $10k
  • MM
    MASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • BF
    BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +63% · 30% of their budget
  • SH
    SIJ Holdings
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • SN
    STATES NEWSROOMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +61%

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

6 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SIJ Holdings — $15,500 · OtherSIJ HoldingsDETROIT NEWSPAPER PARTNERSHIP LP — $10,000 · OtherDETROIT NEWSPAPER PARTNERSHIP LPWP Company LLC — $10,000 · OtherWP Company LLCTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL — $8,333 · OtherTHE WALL STREET JOURNALUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $5,625 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLSolas Publications Inc — $5,000 · OtherSolas Publications IncMichael Kruse Inc — $5,000 · OtherMichael Kruse IncSutton Impact Studio Inc — $2,500 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherSTATES NEWSROOM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSTATES NEWSROOMMASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND I…NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INCBUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBUREAU FOR INTERNAT…HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Education
Other$62,958Arts & Culture$27,500Human Services$20,000Philanthropy$5,000Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSTATES NEWSROOM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC
  • Who funds STATES NEWSROOM
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND INC
  • Who funds HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The National Press Foundation 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
2021222324
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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