New York · Nonprofit
NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC
NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,880 to it, the largest being JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 ($455,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Berkshire United Way Incshared funders
- Dow Jones News Fund Incportfolio match
- Dow Jones Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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 NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income rose $126k → $307k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC’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
NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 56% · 2022 51% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Berkshire United Way Incshared fundersMA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Dow Jones News Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dow Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solutions Journalism Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Globe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- SeldinHaring-Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Democracy Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morse Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Feigenbaum Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Josephine and Louise Crane Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC?
- NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,570,880 to it, the largest being JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 ($455,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,570,880 in grants to NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC?
- JKW FOUNDATION TR UA 092597 is the largest funder on record, with $455,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing