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LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION

LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,136 to it, the largest being LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($21,136). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$13k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funders
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($20k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 100 ($22k)2025 Revenue 68 ($13k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20242025
Revenue (68)Expenses (100)Net assets (0)

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 $22k to $0 (−100%).

$22k
$0
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Maria Chowder

CEO & CFO

Board chair

Dennis A Young

Chair of the board of trustees

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

20242025
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION

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.

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04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION?
LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,136 to it, the largest being LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($21,136). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $21,136 in grants to LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION?
LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOS ALTOS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION 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.

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 1 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