Washington · Nonprofit
MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK
MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,805 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $67k
What My Neighborhood News Network does
Mission
The My Neighborhood News Network seeks to educate the public and serve as a source of local nonpartisan news for communities in south snohomish counties and north king counties through the production of quality local journalism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
- we continue to provide our coverage area of 200,000 people in south snohomish county, washington, with trusted local news, 24/7.- the work of our housing and homelessness reporter made a significant impact in 2025. Her stories ranged from state housing legislation to local affordable housing projects to a heartwarming story about edmonds travel writer rick steves purchasing a building to ensure that those who are unhoused can continue to receive showers and meals (picked up by national news outlets in which we were named, including the washington post). - we ran a 13-part series in december on government finance and you, to explain the budget challenges facing local governments. - we hosted three city council/mayoral candidate forums in our three covered cities: edmonds, lynnwood and mountlake terrace. The lynnwood forum was cohosted by our partner se habla media and translated into spanish for their viewers. We also hosted issues forums on regional fire authority annexation and a proposed edmonds levy lid lift property tax increase.- we sponsored a movie screening of stripped for parts, showcasing the takeover of local media by hedge funds, followed by a panel discussion with…
$466,545 spent$163,389 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $466,545.
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 $64k to $110k (+72%).
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.
66% of MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Carl Zapora
Board chair
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 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK’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
MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK.
“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
MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK: 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 MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK?
- MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,805 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $68,805 in grants to MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK.
- Who is the largest funder of MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK?
- INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MY NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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