Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC
FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,845,864 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($468,575). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Fund for Investigative Journalism Inc does
Mission
The organization provides critical support to independent journalists to investigate news stories regarding corruption, malfeasance, exploitation, misappropriation of funds in the public and private sectors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1969, the fund for investigative journalism, inc. The organization is a non-profit organization that provides grants and other support to independent journalists and news organizations to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact. The organizations main source of revenue are contributions and grants.
$861,514 spentof which $621,161 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $861,514.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.4M (+36%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Eric Ferrero
Secretary/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $280k → $774k.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 36% · 2019 55% · 2020 24% · 2021 20% · 2022 26% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $814k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM 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 FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC?
- FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,845,864 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($468,575). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,845,864 in grants to FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $468,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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