· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WUNC Public Radio LLC | $5,625 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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.
Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases
Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases
Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases
Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases
Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases
Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases
Stated purpose: Training on reporting - rare diseases
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +61% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DNDETROIT NEWSPAPER PARTNERSHIP LP2× · 2021–2022 · $10k
- WCWP Company LLC2× · 2019–2022 · $10k
- MMMASSACHUSETTS MEDIA FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- BFBUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +63% · 30% of their budget
- SHSIJ Holdingsone grant, 2023 · $16k
- SNSTATES NEWSROOMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +61%
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.
6 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. 6 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The National Press Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The National Press Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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