Pennsylvania · Public charity
The Tiny News Collective Inc
We provide the tools, resources and commonwealth of knowledge to help people build sustainable news organizations that reflect and serve their communities. We support voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $27,918
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $231,531
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 26
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 23
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Tiny News Collective Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $2.4M | 63% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $835k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $273k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Optimist LLC | $457,180 | 4 | n/a |
| Five Wards Media LLC | $392,367 | 4 | n/a |
| Front Runner New Jersey | $352,657 | 4 | n/a |
| Atlantic City Focus LLC | $298,353 | 3 | n/a |
| The Jersey Vindicator | $296,763 | 3 | n/a |
| Silver News LLC | $270,138 | 2 | n/a |
| Harvey World Herald LLC | $257,601 | 4 | n/a |
| The Pulp | $245,398 | 3 | 52% |
| Center for Broadcast Journalism | $197,882 | 2 | 43% |
| The Triibe Inc | $150,955 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Optimist LLC | $457,180 | 4 | n/a |
| Five Wards Media LLC | $392,367 | 4 | n/a |
| Front Runner New Jersey | $352,657 | 4 | n/a |
| Atlantic City Focus LLC | $298,353 | 3 | n/a |
| The Jersey Vindicator | $296,763 | 3 | n/a |
| Silver News LLC | $270,138 | 2 | n/a |
| Harvey World Herald LLC | $257,601 | 4 | n/a |
| The Pulp | $245,398 | 3 | 52% |
| Center for Broadcast Journalism | $197,882 | 2 | 43% |
| The Triibe Inc | $150,955 | 1 | n/a |
| Ottawa News Network | $128,847 | 1 | n/a |
| AB&C Bilingual Resources LLC | $124,416 | 2 | n/a |
| The Millennial Black Professor LLC | $123,439 | 2 | n/a |
| Black by God | $120,436 | 3 | n/a |
| Trans Journalists Association | $111,257 | 1 | 23% |
| Nj State House News Service | $111,110 | 2 | n/a |
| Four Points Media Inc | $109,625 | 2 | n/a |
| Mat-Su Sentinel | $107,174 | 2 | 44% |
| Kevco Media LLC | $106,078 | 3 | n/a |
| Global Investigative Journalism Network Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Peoples Beat LLC | $99,827 | 4 | n/a |
| The SHOUT | $82,629 | 1 | n/a |
| La Conner Community News v | $77,217 | 1 | n/a |
| Tucson Spotlight | $66,381 | 2 | n/a |
| Cultura Media LLC | $64,826 | 4 | n/a |
| The 51st | $50,096 | 1 | 6% |
| Lens15 Media | $46,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Kadilak Consulting LLC | $40,855 | 2 | n/a |
| Future Tides LLC | $34,971 | 1 | n/a |
| Evident Media Inc | $34,866 | 1 | 13% |
| Trenton Journal | $32,550 | 2 | n/a |
| The SHOUT | $29,821 | 1 | n/a |
| Latino Media Consortium | $29,295 | 1 | n/a |
| The New Town Press | $27,918 | 1 | n/a |
| Spotlight Schools LLC | $27,677 | 3 | n/a |
| Minnesota Womens Press LLC | $27,631 | 1 | n/a |
| Kingfisher Media LLC | $26,143 | 1 | n/a |
| The Latino Newsletter Inc | $23,795 | 1 | n/a |
| Swellesley Report Inc | $23,152 | 1 | n/a |
| PhillyAfghan Info Hub | $21,683 | 1 | n/a |
| Curious Media LLC | $20,460 | 1 | n/a |
| Brett Dickerson | $19,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Philly Company | $16,502 | 1 | n/a |
| Autonomy News LLC | $12,916 | 1 | n/a |
| News Relay Network | $11,242 | 1 | n/a |
| The Groundtruth Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc | $9,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercer Media LLC | $9,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Nj Pen | $9,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Tapinto - Fair Lawn - Glen Rock | $8,887 | 1 | n/a |
| Coyote Media SF LLC | $6,646 | 1 | n/a |
| Melificent Media LLC | $6,097 | 1 | n/a |
| The We Rise Media Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 24% |
| 2puntos Platform Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Winston Salem Sentinel Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| JuriSee LLC | $5,505 | 1 | n/a |
| William Edward Smith | $5,049 | 1 | n/a |
| Visual Node LLC dba Esta es la Cosa | $5,045 | 1 | n/a |
| Ethiopique LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prior Lake News Compass | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Zoomin Production Corporation v | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
The Tiny News Collective Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc
How this is measured
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About The Tiny News Collective Inc
- How much does The Tiny News Collective Inc give?
- The Tiny News Collective Inc reported 48 itemized grants totaling $2,432,967, out of $2,577,239 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Tiny News Collective Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Tiny News Collective Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: The Optimist LLC ($457k), Five Wards Media LLC ($392k), Front Runner New Jersey ($353k).
- Does The Tiny News Collective Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Tiny News Collective Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation, Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc.
- Where is The Tiny News Collective Inc based?
- The Tiny News Collective Inc is based in PA.
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