Wisconsin · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES
INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,931,000 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($685,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $476k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources does
Mission
The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Southern california wildlife institute:ijnr held a five-day, six-night institute for 15 journalists, held march 2-8, that explored the ecological, social, and economic impacts of southern california's wildfires. Extended drought, overabundant fuel, and an influx of residential development in the wildland-urban interface have led to more destructive fires. State, federal and local officials are trying out new ways to work together and protect residents from a relentless fire cycle that continues to consume property and threaten human life. Meanwhile, firefighting agencies contend with a crisis in firefighter mental health, a dwindling workforce and complicated resource-sharing arrangements. The end result is a complex beat, rich with stories for journalists covering fire. The program began and ended in san diego, and traveled to locations across southern california as participating journalists met with fire chiefs, scientists, homeowners, tribal officials, policymakers and more as we explored efforts to mitigate the worst impacts of fire and create a more sustainable future for southern california. Reporting on the urban environment workshop:from july 10-12, ijnr brought 15…
$481,800 spentof which $29,360 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $481,800.
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 2022 to 2023, from $920k to $1.3M (+41%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
David Spratt
CEO
Board chair
Karen Scanlon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $465k.
3 of 14 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 INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES’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
INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
32% 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 INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 40% · 2021 38% · 2022 48% · 2023 39% — 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
36% of INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
29%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES: 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 INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES?
- INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES (Wisconsin) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,931,000 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($685,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,931,000 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES?
- THE JOYCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $685,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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