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Corner Post Media

Corner Post Media (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,619 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($95,369). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$241k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$162k
Net assets
$148k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Corner Post Media does

Mission

To provide education and awareness to the general public, by producing and publishing in-depth journalism about issues related to the intersection of culture and land across the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado Plateau is traditionally an underserved region for endemic reporting, and The Corner Post's mission is to help fill that void.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, Corner Post Media produced over 300 original, locally reported stories, distributed in print and online through Corner Post Media's newspaper, The Wayne & Garfield County Insider. The Insider is a two-county newspaper with a print circulation of 3,700 as well as a website, insiderutah.com, which receives 6,000 unique visitors each month and a digital newsletter with 400 subscribers. The Insider works with staff reporters and freelance journalists to cover local news and feature stories, local government meetings and activities and stories related to community businesses and economic development. Corner Post Media also produced long-form regional reporting published online at cornerpost.org. Stories published on cornerpost.org are published under Creative Commons licensing and are free for other established outlets to redistribute free-of-charge.

    $195,041 spent$165,314 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,041.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2023 Revenue 359 ($104k) Expenses 493 ($70k) Net assets 236 ($76k)2024 Revenue 776 ($226k) Expenses 1403 ($199k) Net assets 364 ($117k)2025 Revenue 830 ($241k) Expenses 1375 ($195k) Net assets 461 ($148k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (830)Expenses (1375)Net assets (461)Peer revenue range

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 $77k to $122k (+58%).

$32k
$77k
$122k
$154k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

31% of Corner Post Media’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’22
$34k
’23
$27k
’24
$46k
’25
8.9
months of
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

Erica Walz

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $34k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Corner Post 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

Corner Post Media leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 Corner Post Media.

59%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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

59% of Corner Post Media'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 $66k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 3 states.

CA
UT
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’23
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Corner Post Media has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve8.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)102% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Corner Post Media

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 Utah

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Corner Post Media?
Corner Post Media (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,619 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($95,369). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Corner Post Media have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $161,619 in grants to Corner Post Media, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Corner Post Media?
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Corner Post Media find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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