California · Nonprofit
Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc
Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $556,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $709k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $557k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc does
Mission
To inform and educate the public by providing timely, accurate and interesting news that inspires readers to think, act and connect with the world around them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Editorial Production: Journalists created articles, videos, photos, and other content that helps Long Beach residents understand local power structures and access essential news for their safety and wellbeing. The organization published investigations that led to increased transparency, including reporting on environmental impacts of a local construction project and alleged theft by a local food bank. Coverage provided residents vital information during federal immigration enforcement actions. Reporting illuminated city decisions and processes through coverage of local government meetings, public safety, health, and other critical community issues, enabling accountability of leaders to taxpayers and residents.
$316,760 spent$29,629 earned by the program100% of program spendingCommunity outreach and engagement: The organization published a Long Beach 101 Civic guide connecting residents with their elected leaders and a guide highlighting and celebrating tourist attractions in the city. The organization hosted a workshop for the community on records requests. The organization regularly partnered with other nonprofit groups to host trainings and community events. Expenses for this program are included in Part III, Line 4a.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $316,760.
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. 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 $219k to $157k (−28%).
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.
81% of Long Beach Journalism Initiative 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 2 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
Melissa Evans
CEO
Board chair
Matthew Kinley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Long Beach Journalism Initiative 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
Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc.
“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
66% of Long Beach Journalism Initiative 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 $190k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $557k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Long Beach Journalism Initiative 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Long Beach Journalism Initiative 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 Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc?
- Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $556,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $556,500 in grants to Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Long Beach Journalism Initiative Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), 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