New Hampshire · Nonprofit
GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE
GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE (New Hampshire) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,331 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $272k
- Net assets
- $210k
What Granite State News Collaborative does
Mission
The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide multimedia news collaborative that draws on and amplifies the strengths of its members to expand and add missing dimensions to coverage of issues of concern to the NH public as a whole, as well as to particular communities. Through coordinated reporting and engagement activities, the Collaborative will pursue inclusive and responsive coverage that builds public trust and holds government accountable to its citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Investigative and Data-Driven Journalism Projects Objective: To produce high-impact investigative stories on urgent issues affecting New Hampshire communities, particularly those underreported by individual outlets. Activities: GSNC contracts a team of investigative freelancers and data reporters who collaborate with local editors to produce in-depth, original stories. Topics covered include housing insecurity, public health disparities, digital equity, education funding, and zoning policies. In 2023-2024, GSNC produced more than 300 deeply reported stories and projects for its partner local news outlets. GSNC also partners with academic institutions, such as Boston University and the University of New Hampshire, to deepen reporting with expert research support.
$92,719 spent87% of program spendingObjective: To expand the reach, efficiency, and diversity of local journalism in New Hampshire by facilitating cross-outlet collaboration and content sharing. Activities: GSNC operates a content-sharing platform that enables more than 20 partner organizations to freely republish trusted, original stories, resulting in over 3,000 cross-published stories annually - the equivalent of adding six full-time reporters to the NH journalism ecosystem. In addition to the exchange, GSNC coordinates multi-newsroom coverage of statewide issues such as education, housing, healthcare, and elections. This coordination reduces duplication, aligns editorial calendars, and ensures broader geographic and demographic representation in reporting.
$1,062 spent1% of program spendingObjective: To build civic awareness, increase representation in media, and provide training and paid opportunities to emerging and nontraditional journalists. Activities: The Civic Documenters Program trains and pays high school students, college students, and community members to cover local government meetings. Two regional cohorts launched in 2024, with more planned. Through NH Informado, GSNC co-produces bilingual civic information content to better serve Spanish-speaking residents. The "Know Your Vote" Youth Voter Guide project engaged 17 early-career and student journalists in civic coverage, produced 50+ stories and 3 public TV episodes, and conducted in-person outreach in schools.
$12,540 spent12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $106,321.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $155k to $210k (+35%).
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.
100% of GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Melanie Plenda
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 9 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 GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE’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
GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE.
“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
GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 4 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $113k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE
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In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% 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 GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE: 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 GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE?
- GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE (New Hampshire) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,331 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $272,331 in grants to GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE?
- Democracy Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRANITE STATE NEWS COLLABORATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing