New Jersey · Nonprofit
DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC
DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,400 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($330,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $617k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $455k
- Net assets
- $483k
What Dow Jones News Fund Inc does
Programs
College intern training, placement and support program - 81 college students were selected out of hundreds of applicants to participate in on-site training events organized by the organization and placed in internships with news organization across the country. The organization also covered travel costs and provided financial assistance to interns during their internships.
$378,477 spentCollege student scholarships - the organization provided 1,500 scholarships to eligible college students who participated in the internship program.
$73,500 spentEarly career training program - nominated staff members with less than three years of newsroom experience working for participating newsrooms were selected to participate online training once a week for four weeks, and travel to two-day in-person sessions at the beginning and end of the program. The organization covered training, food, and lodging costs; newsrooms paid travel costs.
$69,020 spentHigh school summer journalism workshops - the organization provided funding to 4 educational institutions to host summer journalism workshops for high school students.
$25,000 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $48k to $418k (+774%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $70k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dow Jones Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DOW JONES NEWS FUND 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
DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 71% — 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
72% of DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like DOW JONES NEWS FUND 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC?
- DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,400 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($330,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $455,400 in grants to DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOW JONES NEWS FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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