Minnesota · Nonprofit
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Investigative Reporting Alliance does
Mission
This corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious and educational as specified in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.The purpose of this corporation is: to support local news organizations as they conduct investigative journalism projects in their communities; to improve overall capabilities and capacity of news organizations to execute investigative journalism through collaboration and training; to create a network of news organizations within regions and nationally that share knowledge about key topic areas in the public interest
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Investigative Reporting Alliance continued to try to raise money to advance its first mission of creating a nonprofit news services dedicated to the issue of gun incidents in schools. That project, called The Perimeter, is dedicated to helping communities understand that issue in their schools and assisting reporters with knowledge and expertise to report well and responsibly on the matter. Donor outreach continued through the year. All activities this year were dedicated to raising funds to support launch of the enterprise.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
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 $19k to $15k (−19%).
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.
0% of INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Christopher Worthington
CEO, eic
Board chair
Gayle Golden
Board President, COO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 REPORTING ALLIANCE’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
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 REPORTING ALLIANCE.
“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
75% of INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE
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 Minnesota
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE: 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 INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE?
- INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE.
- Who is the largest funder of INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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