North Dakota · Nonprofit
Listening to America Project Inc
Listening to America Project Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $767,840 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($686,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $768k
- Net assets
- $614k
What Listening to America Project Inc does
Mission
Listening to America is an educational and journalistic initiative dedicated to helping Americans better understand one another through exploring our shared past and collective present. Our goal is to enable citizens across all social, economic and political groups find more inclusive ground and build a better future together.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Podcast/Radio Program - the podcast served the centerpiece of LTAs communication with its audience. As primary host and contributor, Clay Jenkinson recorded a weekly, hour-long podcast that explored Americas past and present. The podcasts were designed to help inform and educate Americans so as to help them better understand the countrys shared history. The podcasts were in various forms, with Clay sometimes interviewing special guests, other times taking on contemporary issues with regularly re-occurring co-hosts, and always attempting to address present-day concerns from both historical and humanities perspectives. The podcast is made available via the website as well as major streaming outlets, and it is carried by numerous Public Radio stations across the United States.
$78,448 spent33% of program spendingJournalistic and Educational Essays - As Clay traveled around the country, he regularly reports the people and places he encountered, as well as on historic and contemporary news items from around the country. These essays were submitted on a weekly basis to LTA consultants to edit and publish on the LTA website: LTAmerica.org. These articles are regularly included in Listening to Americas weekly electronic newsletter sent at no charge to subscribers. Topics covered included Native American History, issues and challenges of water usage and availability in the west, the history and importance of national parks and public lands, U.S. presidential and constitutional history and more. In addition to the weekly LTA podcast/radio program these journalistic/education essays and articles are a central part of LTAs work to inform and educate readers/listeners about the overlooked historical and contemporary stories and issues shaping Americas people and places.
$78,448 spent33% of program spendingJournalistic and Educational Videos - Many stories, individuals and locations that LTA contributors encountered were best translatable to the LTA audience using video. LTA contributors carried video equipment and when appropriate they accumulated raw video that was transmitted to LTA consultants and edited into video journals. These videos were the third prong in LTAs ongoing program to inform and educate the audience. As with the podcast essays, LTAs video work tells stories through a historical and a humanities perspective. They were distributed via the website newsletter and social media.
$78,448 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,344.
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 $106k to $551k (+423%).
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.
90% of Listening to America Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $233k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Listening to America Project 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
Listening to America Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Listening to America Project Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
93% of Listening to America Project 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 $56k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Dakota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $712k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Listening to America Project Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Listening to America Project 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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Listening to America Project Inc: 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 Listening to America Project Inc?
- Listening to America Project Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $767,840 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($686,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Listening to America Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $767,840 in grants to Listening to America Project Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Listening to America Project Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $686,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Listening to America Project Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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