Virginia · Nonprofit
ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,910,200 to it, the largest being THE ALLBRITTON FOUNDATION ($18,900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Allbritton Journalism Institute does
Mission
Allbritton Journalism Institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Allbritton Journalism Institute (the institute) aims to restore journalism's role in our democracy by fostering a new generation of reporters, from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives, who produce work that americans trust. To accomplish this goal, we have created notus, a new kind of d.c. Publication. Think of it as a teaching hospital for journalism: a publication staffed both by some of the country's best political journalists and by aji reporting fellows - up-and-coming, early-career journalists who are chosen through an annual application process, and who work with, and learn from, their more established colleagues. (see schedule o)the institute offers a two-year program designed to equip students from a diverse range of backgrounds for careers as credible, non-partisan reporters. The curriculum provides our students both a rigorous education in core journalistic skills and hands-on experience covering government and politics. Students are enrolled full-time for the duration of the two-year program, taking regularly scheduled courses taught by the institute's faculty as well as guest lecturers. Formal instruction is conducted in a variety of formats, including…
$6,008,996 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,008,996.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $3.2M (+110%).
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.
100% of ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Robert L Allbritton
Chairman/president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Allbritton Foundation · exempt
- Allbritton Art Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE: 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 ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE?
- ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,910,200 to it, the largest being THE ALLBRITTON FOUNDATION ($18,900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $18,910,200 in grants to ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE?
- THE ALLBRITTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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