Mississippi · Nonprofit
MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE
MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE (Mississippi) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $771,500 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC ($312,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $699k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $772k
- Net assets
- $594k
What Magnolia Tribune Institute does
Mission
We are dedicated to the mission of supplying citizens with relevant, timely, and trustworthy information on the issues that impact their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The institute's primary program service is the operation of a non-profit digital only newsroom that provides daily news, a diversity of perspectives on important issues, business coverage, and cultural coverage of arts and entertainment. The institute publishes new original content 6 days a week and distributes that content through its own news site, a daily newsletter, social media, and through republication in other news outlets. To execute on its mission, the institute employs both full-time reporters, as well as a stable of independent contract writers. All content produced by the institute is made available to the general public and to other news publications who wish to republish free of charge.
$471,668 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $471,668.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $333k to $538k (+61%).
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.
100% of MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Russell Latino
CEO/secretary
Board chair
Spencer Ritchie
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.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE’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
MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE.
“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
82% of MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258k 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
MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE: 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 MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE?
- MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE (Mississippi) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $771,500 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC ($312,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $771,500 in grants to MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE?
- INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $312,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 8 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