California · Nonprofit
NEW MEDIA VENTURES
NEW MEDIA VENTURES (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,735,756 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,695,756). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $343k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $170k
What New Media Ventures does
Mission
We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, New Media Ventures sustained strong momentum across our responsible ai and latine voices for democracy initiatives while continuing to invest in organizational resilience and team wellbeing. Our latine voices for democracy (lv4d) accelerator supports a cohort of latine-led outlets and creators to develop sharper pro-democracy narratives, counter disinformation in key states, and test advocacy-oriented content that can influence public debate and civic participation where democracy is most at risk. Separately, our responsible ai work backs builders using ai to shift public narratives, strengthen advocacy campaigns, and power organizing strategies, including in explicitly issue-advocacy and electoral-adjacent contexts, while remaining grounded in nmvs power-building mission. Together, these initiatives demonstrate how nmv uses both narrative power and technology to strengthen democracy where it is most contested, laying the groundwork for the broader impact metrics we share below. The year reflected a balance of disciplined execution and adaptive leadership, allowing us to expand programmatic offerings, deepen funder relationships, and respond effectively to a rapidly…
$322,562 spentof which $100,000 as grants82% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $391,972. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
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 $1.1M to $357k (−68%).
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 NEW MEDIA VENTURES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.6M.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 NEW MEDIA VENTURES’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
NEW MEDIA VENTURES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 NEW MEDIA VENTURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 43% — 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
62% of NEW MEDIA VENTURES'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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.
Against its field
NEW MEDIA VENTURES's revenue fell 69% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEW MEDIA VENTURES
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
76% 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 NEW MEDIA VENTURES: 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 NEW MEDIA VENTURES?
- NEW MEDIA VENTURES (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,735,756 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,695,756). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW MEDIA VENTURES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,735,756 in grants to NEW MEDIA VENTURES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW MEDIA VENTURES?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,695,756 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW MEDIA VENTURES 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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