Michigan · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,162 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ($500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $224k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $811k
- Net assets
- $428k
What Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism does
Mission
We convene and lead global investigations that are grounded in strategic mentorship. We lay bare overlooked issues with gripping visual and data-driven storytelling. Above all, we strive for accountability and seek solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We convene investigative, visual, and data jounalists from around the world to carry out ongoing investigations into key global issues.
$423,148 spent100% of program spendingWe provide skills training to journalists around the world.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $423,148.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $326k to $674k (+107%).
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.
93% of CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $200k → $418k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 40% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM: 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 CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM?
- CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,162 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ($500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $811,162 in grants to CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM?
- OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE 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 CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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