Washington · Nonprofit
Comma
Comma (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($55,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $-114988
What Comma does
Mission
To perform community-centered journalism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Journalism: Comma's primary activity is performing acts of journalism, operating the community funded portion of Spokane's largest daily newspaper (The Spokesman Review), and providing support and resources to other community-owned newspapers via a community journalism lab. Initially our support for community-owed newspapers will focus on The Black Lens, a monthly publication that focuses on issues that are important to the city's African American Community, the student-published Gonzaga Bulletin publication, that serves the students and alumni of Gonzaga University and the Spokane Falls Communicator, that serves the students and alumni of Spokane Falls Community College Journalists write the stories, and talented professionals design and layout the paper and support the digital presence.
$49,597 spentof which $49,597 as grants62% of program spendingCivic Engagement: Comma also hosts several community engagement events like Northwest Passages that support local papers and provide general community education and engagement. Approximately half of these events are in the nature of a book club where authors are interviewed live on stage by journalists to discuss the core message and themes of their books. Other events include political forums and debates, and cultural events (concerts, film screenings, sports stories). The events are conducted by a small staff of full-time, volunteer and contractors. The events are held at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center on Gonzaga Campus, the Chronicle Room at the Spokesman, The Bing Theater or at the Steam Plant in Spokane, Washington.
$30,876 spent38% of program spendingNewsroom Education: Disseminating knowledge, information and training for other newsrooms. The programmatic educational elements are being developed in the second half of 2025 for launch in 2026.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,473.
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) — 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 Comma’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
Comma leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
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 Comma.
“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
100% of Comma's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
Comma receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $78k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Comma
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Comma: 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 Comma?
- Comma (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,000 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($55,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Comma have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $78,000 in grants to Comma.
- Who is the largest funder of Comma?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Comma find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2024–2024), 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