· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $461k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Silver News LLC | $231,531 |
| The New Jersey Center for Nonprofit | $200,549 |
| The Triibe Inc | $150,955 |
| AC Joseph Media | $142,015 |
| Atlantic City Focus | $140,111 |
| Ottawa News Network | $128,847 |
| Five Wards Media | $114,424 |
| The Optimist LLC | $103,660 |
| AB&C Bilingual Resources LLC | $94,532 |
| MatSu Sentinel | $94,458 |
| The Millennial Black Professor LLC | $88,584 |
| NJ Center for Student Journalism | $83,110 |
| The SHOUT | $82,629 |
| La Conner Community News v | $77,217 |
| The Pulp | $70,267 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $863k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOThe Optimist LLC4× · 2022–2025 · $457k
- FWFive Wards Media LLC4× · 2022–2025 · $392k
- FRFRONT RUNNER NEW JERSEY4× · 2022–2025 · $353k
Funded once
- TJTRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $111k · revenue +43%
- GIGLOBAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM NETWORK INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- TSThe SHOUTone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
Educating the public and journalists about crime and criminal justice, primarily through the publication of a daily news digest, Crime and Justice News.
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.
Through in-depth and thought-provoking journalism, prism reflects the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice. As an independent and nonprofit newsroom LED by journalists of color, we tell stories from the ground up: to…
Build a community-supported newsroom that ignites civic engagement, educates citizens and strengthens our democracy.
To educate the public about current events and help sustain a diverse media ecosystem by promoting and assisting independent news outlets and, in doing so, advance democracy and social justice.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Expands local news across North Carolina
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 61 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.
- Who funds THE PULP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA NEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MAT-SU SENTINEL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The 51st ↗
- Who funds Evident Media Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO NEWSLETTER 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.
Open a dossier: New Jersey Civic Information Consortium a Nj Nonprofit Corporation · Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tiny News Collective Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tiny News Collective Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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