· Public charity
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc
The poynter institue is a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wisconsin Center for Investig | $100,000 |
| USA Today | $50,000 |
| Trustees of The Univ of Penn | $50,000 |
| Univision Communications Inc | $45,000 |
| USA Today | $45,000 |
| Factchequeado | $40,000 |
| Factly Media & Research | $40,000 |
| News Detective | $25,000 |
| Snopes Media Group Inc | $12,500 |
| Check Your Fact | $12,500 |
| Lee Ent dba Missoulian Newspa | $10,000 |
| Richland Times LLC | $10,000 |
| Wisconsin Center for Investig | $10,000 |
| IU Office of Research Admin | $10,000 |
| Racine County Eye LLC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its 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: $4.1M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 14 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGannett Co3× · 2021–2024 · $172k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON2× · 2021–2022 · $100k
- FIFAKENETAI INC2× · 2020–2022 · $99k
Funded once
- UCUNIVISION COMMUNICATIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $45k
- TPTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INCone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +10%
- RWReporters Without Borders Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +245%
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.
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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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 31 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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Solutions Journalism Network Inc · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc: 1% of income from government
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