Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC
CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,193 to it, the largest being CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($128,333). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $172k
What Cambridge News Inc does
Mission
To educate the public by creating and publishing newspapers, podcasts, websites and other educational media, hosting lectures, panels, conferences and educational programs for the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Publishing articles daily on www.cambridgeday.com.
$294,913 spent76% of program spendingPrinting of the "week" by the cambridge day, print edition, (printing, distribtution, layout and team time).
$91,266 spent24% of program spendingWeekly newsletter on thursdays.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $386,179.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $28k to $174k (+516%).
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.
81% of CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% 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
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) — 87% 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 CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC’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
CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
87% 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 CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC.
“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
87% of CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k 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
CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC: 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 CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC?
- CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,193 to it, the largest being CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($128,333). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $148,193 in grants to CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC?
- CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $128,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing