Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,000 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- League of Conservation Voters Education Fundshared funders
- Democracy Matters Foundationportfolio match
- John Brown Cook Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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 AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $58M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The American Independent Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA’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
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA.
“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
81% of AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 336 organizations that share them.
- League of Conservation Voters Education Fundshared fundersDC · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Democracy Matters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Brown Cook Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shared Ascent Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schumann Media Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R Street Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Investigative Journalism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Democracyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dunn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Henkes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Constitutional Governmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impetus Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA?
- AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,175,000 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,175,000 in grants to AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA?
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing