New York · Nonprofit
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,224,929 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($300,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $551k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $651k
What Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Inc does
Mission
Fairs organizational mission is to monitor, research and document media reporting for inaccuracies and bias and make this information available to the public. This purpose is fulfilled with publication of the newsletter extra!, the broadcast of the weekly radio show counterspin and publishing this information on its website fair.org.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fair is the publisher of the newsletter extra! Extra! Publishes well-documented articles examining inaccurate or bias reporting, censored news, press/state cronyism, the power of corporate owners and advertisers, and the exclusion of progressive voices in the mainstream media.
$217,035 spent$27,449 earned by the program43% of program spendingFair researches and analyzes news reports for examples of bias and inaccuracies. It also documents instances of corporate and advertising influence in the news. With studies, reports and interviews fair presents fact-based information to the public with its print newsletter, weekly radio show and website.
$172,489 spent34% of program spendingCounterspin is the weekly half-hour radio show of fair that broadcasts on over 150 non-commercial stations across the country. It is also available online. The show covers a number of news items from the past week and then conducts interviews on two major news stories by experts in the field.
$121,145 spent$5,025 earned by the program24% of program spendingFairs activism involves encouraging members to communicate to journalists to demand more responsible reporting. Fair works to invigorate the first amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. At present fair has an online activism list of over 55,000.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $510,669.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $749k to $1.2M (+59%).
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.
90% of FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $54k → $129k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 26% · 2021 20% · 2022 50% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $515k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC: 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 FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC?
- FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC (New York) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,224,929 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($300,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,224,929 in grants to FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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