North Carolina · Nonprofit
ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST
ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,675 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST's revenue fell 84% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,380 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fftc Partners for Empowering Communitieslocal
- Institute for Nonprofit Newsportfolio match
- Local Independent Online News Publishers Incportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $60k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST’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
ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $542k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fftc Partners for Empowering CommunitieslocalNC · funds 272 organizations near you
- Institute for Nonprofit Newsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local Independent Online News Publishers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Press Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Groundtruth Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local Media Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taitanchi Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earthshare Chapters Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilson Conservation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alternative Newsweekly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Investigative Journalism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pro Publica Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST?
- ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,675 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,241,675 in grants to ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENT NEWS TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing