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NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC

NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,980 to it, the largest being LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ($196,980). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$490k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$202k
Net assets
$774k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What New York News Publishers Assoc Inc does

Mission

The new york newspaper publishers association is a trade association which provides information and technical assistance to the newspaper industry and related organizations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The staff is available on a daily basis to answer questions from newspapers regarding issues relating to public notice advertising, open government laws, laws regarding advertising, legislative action, etc.

  2. Nynpa publishes a weekly member bulletin containing information on member newspapers and issues affecting the newspaper industry and advocates on behalf of its members.

  3. Nynpa administers a state-wide contest, "the excellence awards" to recognize achievement in journalism among member newspapers and held a conference for ny newspaper advertising & marketing executives.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($691k) Expenses 100 ($637k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 85 ($588k) Expenses 94 ($599k) Net assets 96 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 78 ($539k) Expenses 91 ($580k) Net assets 92 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 61 ($425k) Expenses 88 ($563k) Net assets 80 ($884k)2021 Revenue 72 ($497k) Expenses 86 ($546k) Net assets 75 ($829k)2022 Revenue 87 ($600k) Expenses 87 ($556k) Net assets 79 ($868k)2023 Revenue 86 ($594k) Expenses 99 ($628k) Net assets 78 ($860k)2024 Revenue 71 ($490k) Expenses 95 ($602k) Net assets 70 ($774k)
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Revenue (71)Expenses (95)Net assets (70)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $887k (−13%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$887k
$831k
$874k
$862k
$787k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$54k
’17
−$11k
’18
−$41k
’19
−$138k
’20
−$49k
’21
$44k
’22
−$34k
’23
−$112k
’24
1.1
months of
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

Tim Kennedy

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed12121210101088
Joined·+0+0+5+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0070020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $47k.

Funder
'21
'23
'24*
total
$197k
funders
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $624k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New York Newspapers Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC’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 YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.

MI
NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • New York Newspapers Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC?
NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,980 to it, the largest being LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ($196,980). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $201,980 in grants to NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC?
LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $196,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW YORK NEWS PUBLISHERS ASSOC INC 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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