Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST
PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,850 to it, the largest being THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ($143,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $247k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $0
What Philadelphia Association of Black Journalist does
Mission
We aim to increase the number of black media professionals and combat racism in the media
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Distributed grants to journalism students. Provided emerging black journalists and conent creatores with technical training, editorial coaching, mentorship and direct placement opportunities.
$98,722 spentof which $10,000 as grants$247,073 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,722.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $245k to $0 (−100%).
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 PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST’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 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $300 → $98k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST’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
PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 58% · 2022 79% · 2023 51% — 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
100% of PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST: 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 PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST?
- PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,850 to it, the largest being THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ($143,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $289,850 in grants to PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST?
- THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF is the largest funder on record, with $143,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALIST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 7 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