Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,163,849 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,050,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $12M
What International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc does
Mission
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Editorial: with nearly 300 members in 100 countries, our network brings unique talents, experiences and perspectives to the work. Our 2025 investigations exposed china's campaign of transnational repression, revealed how cryptocurrency atms have enabled fraud and documented human rights abuses in syria. Our journalists earned numerous national and international awards including the maria moors cabot prize, the livingston award for international reporting and the lorenzo natali prize for international best practices in journalism.
$3,360,518 spent$764,153 earned by the program65% of program spendingTechnology: our ambitious investigations rely on datashare, the open-source platform we built. Today, it is used not just by icij but by academics, government agencies, ngos and newsrooms worldwide. In 2025, we made datashare faster, more reliable and easier to use. We upgraded its underlying infrastructure to support the latest search technologies and bundled required components into the installer so journalists no longer need to configure additional software to get started. Research and data: icij maintains a secure research hub of 40 million documents for use by our partners. We also provide public access to about one million records in our offshore leaks and international medical devices databases. In 2025 alone, more than 3.8 million unique users viewed 14.4 million pages in our offshore leaks database.
$1,824,112 spent35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,184,630.
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 $4.3M to $7.4M (+72%).
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 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 18% · 2024 22% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Gerard Ryle
Executive director
Board chair
Rhona Murphy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $2.3M.
15 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC 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
87% 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 CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 62% · 2020 73% · 2021 54% · 2022 30% · 2023 44% — 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
47% of INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
53% of INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.2M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Icij Europe · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC?
- INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,163,849 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,050,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $13,163,849 in grants to INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,050,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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