Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
100 Reporters
100 Reporters (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,539,923 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($575,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $291k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $24k
What 100 Reporters does
Mission
To inform public's right to know through investigative journalism, adapting traditional tools and standards of ethics and excellence to the new media landscape, working with whistleblowers and citizen watchdogs to expose corruption and heighten public accountability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Double exposure investigative film festival and symposium: 100reporters' mission is "to inform the public's right to know through investigative journalism and to adapt best "journalism tools and standards to the new media landscape." in line with this, the organization presented the eleventh annual edition of double exposure, the nation's only investigative film festival and symposium, october 30 through november 2, 2025, under the theme "the new fault lines." the festival screened 25 investigative documentaries selected from 113 submissions 13 feature-length films and 12 shorts across three strands dominated by films that go deep on issues of public interest, nearly all world, u.s., dc regional premieres. The slate included all the empty rooms, on the aftermath of school shootings for the families left behind, which went on to win the academy award for best documentary short; eugene jarecki's the six billion dollar man, which later won the first golden globe for documentary ever awarded, and cover-up, about legendary investigative journalist and dc resident seymour hersh. Alongside these high-profile works, the festival continued its commitment to surfacing new voices, including…
$262,143 spent92% of program spendingCivic accountability: 100reporters used material, editorial and legal resources to advance civic accountability through journalism worldwide, working with locally based journalists, often in places that lack legal protections for independent reporting that challenges government and corporate interests by exposing entrenched corruption. In a two-part investigation funded by transparency international and co-published with the continent, reporters kaleab girma and ashenafi endale documented how military generals and foreign mining interests are plundering an estimated $2-3.5 billion in gold annually from ethiopia's post-war tigray region, enabled by weak oversight and factional infighting in the war's aftermath. In the seychelles, journalist neha wadekar exposed how united arab emirates-backed luxury hotel development has destroyed protected sea turtle nesting grounds and contaminated critical wetlands, while a complicit government declined to enforce its own environmental laws. And in the united states, 100reporters examined the domestic policy consequences of federal budget legislation on the more than one million senior citizens living in nursing homes, reporting on how cuts to…
$17,999 spent6% of program spendingEducation: 100reporters continued to expand dx squared), its online resource hub for investigative journalists and filmmakers. In 2025, it recorded and posted all sessions from the 2025 double exposure festival and symposium, ensuring that journalists, filmmakers, and the general public had access to all of the panels and discussions at the double exposure symposium at no cost. The platform hosts a searchable archive of sessions recorded across eleven editions of double exposure, including panel discussions, workshops, masterclasses, and filmmaker q&as, alongside a handbook and contract templates helping freelance journalists and independent filmmakers negotiate fair terms with major media organizations. Dx squared) extends the festival's reach permanently beyond its four days, at no cost to users, giving practitioners who cannot attend in person a lasting avenue into 100reporters' mission of advancing best practices in investigative storytelling.
$3,950 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $284,092.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $260k to $110k (−58%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2023 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of 100 Reporters’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $76k → $169k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 100 Reporters’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
100 Reporters leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 51% · 2019 56% · 2020 38% · 2021 37% · 2022 46% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of 100 Reporters's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100 Reporters draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
100 Reporters's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like 100 Reporters
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 100 Reporters: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 100 Reporters?
- 100 Reporters (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,539,923 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($575,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 100 Reporters have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,539,923 in grants to 100 Reporters, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 100 Reporters?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 100 Reporters find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing