Missouri · Nonprofit
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,830,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,749,960). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc does
Mission
The mission of investigative reporters and editors is to foster excellence in investigative journalism, which is essential to a free society. We accomplish this by providing training, resources and a community of support to investigative journalists, promoting high professional standards, protecting the rights of investigative journalists, and ensuring the future of ire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National institute for computer-assisted reporting operates to train and educate those in the journalism profession in techniques and technologies of computer-assisted reporting.revenues shown above do not include $179,768 of contributions that were restricted by donors for use in funding nicar expenses shown above. The requirements for classifying revenues in the form 990 do not permit contributions to be reported above as program service revenue, but instead they are reported elsewhere as contribution revenue.
$949,838 spentof which $111,473 as grants$410,035 earned by the program44% of program spendingConferences to educate and inform members on issues regarding investigative reporting and editing.revenues shown above do not include $689,776 of contributions that were restricted by donors for use in funding the conference expenses shown above. The requirements for classifying revenues in the form 990 do not permit contributions to be reported above as program service revenue, but instead they are reported elsewhere as contribution revenue.
$875,296 spentof which $128,668 as grants$645,648 earned by the program41% of program spendingProvide general membership services and the ire journal to enhance the skills and resources of journalists and train and educate them in the techniques of investigative reporting.
$176,200 spent$279,912 earned by the program8% of program spendingCreate and accumulate reference data and associated services by members in investigative journalism.
$37,466 spent$6,291 earned by the program2% of program spendingWeb services: funding operation of the website, including resources, workshops, conferences, job ads, and other online content.revenues shown above do not include $2,000 of contributions that were restricted by donors for use in funding the conference expenses shown above. The requirements for classifying revenues in the form 990 do not permit contributions to be reported above as program service revenue, but instead they are reported elsewhere as contribution revenue.
$101,186 spent$44,301 earned by the program5% of program spendingAwards
$16,623 spent$43,020 earned by the program1% of program spendingNet sales of program related items
$107,148 earned by the programProvide research and training services for a pilot program with project word that provides freelance investigative journalists with reporting tools and resources including the help desk resource and the virtual newsroom in-depth research assistance including legal review, professional training sessions and access to experienced freelance editors.
$3,613 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,160,222.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.9M to $10M (+14%).
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: 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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
Diana Fuentes
Executive director
Board chair
Brian Rosenthal
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $655k → $2.0M.
22 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
46% 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 INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 26% · 2019 36% · 2020 26% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 17% — 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
29% of INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS 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
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- U.S. Agency for Global Media$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS 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 Missouri
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
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC?
- INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,830,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,749,960). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $10,830,534 in grants to INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,749,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 70 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