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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,350 to it, the largest being SEMNANI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($41,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $9k
What International Association of Religion Journalists Inc does
Mission
The international association of religion journalists (iarj) is a global network of journalists promoting excellence in the coverage of religion and spirituality. It provides services and resources to strengthen and support the work of its members. It engages media leaders, educational institutions and communities on the importance of accurate, balanced, and ethical religion coverage to foster understanding
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To support journalist who are persecuted in the line of covering religion
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $83k to $53k (−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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC’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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 91% · 2022 56% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,890 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC?
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,350 to it, the largest being SEMNANI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($41,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $87,350 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC?
- SEMNANI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 6 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