Indiana · Nonprofit
FREE PRESS INDIANA
FREE PRESS INDIANA (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,054,866 to it, the largest being AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ($5,612,996). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FREE PRESS INDIANA receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Arthur Jordan Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Arts Council of Indianapolis Incshared funderslocal
- The Groundtruth Project Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FREE PRESS INDIANA’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
FREE PRESS INDIANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 FREE PRESS INDIANA.
“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
FREE PRESS INDIANA draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arthur Jordan Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIN · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Indianapolis Incshared funderslocalIN · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 113 organizations near you
- The Groundtruth Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local Independent Online News Publishers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pro Publica Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Investigative Journalism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local Media Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Press Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alternative Newsweekly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Int'L Center for Journalists Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solutions Journalism Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lacy Foundationshared funderslocalIN · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like FREE PRESS INDIANA
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREE PRESS INDIANA: 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 FREE PRESS INDIANA?
- FREE PRESS INDIANA (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,054,866 to it, the largest being AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ($5,612,996). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE PRESS INDIANA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $7,054,866 in grants to FREE PRESS INDIANA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE PRESS INDIANA?
- AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,612,996 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE PRESS INDIANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 15funders 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