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PRISM REPORTS INC

PRISM REPORTS INC (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,190,735 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($2,342,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$8.2M
Net assets
$664k
18/32 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Prism Reports Inc does

Mission

Through in-depth and thought-provoking journalism, prism reflects the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice. As an independent and nonprofit newsroom LED by journalists of color, we tell stories from the ground up: to disrupt harmful narratives, and to inform movements for Justice.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Through our original reporting, Prism investigates systems of power and reports with communities most impacted by injustice. We connect lived experience to structural forces, ground our work in historical and political context, and produce clear, accurate journalism that strengthens movements and builds media literacy for collective liberation.

    $1,530,859 spent
    96% of program spending
  2. Through our Reflective Journalism Project, Prism trains aspiring writers, community leaders, and frontline social justice thinkers and organizers on the editorial processes and strategies needed to turn journalism into a tool for collective liberation.

    $67,500 spent$1,321 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,598,359.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($100k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 670 ($670k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 638 ($638k)2019 Revenue 1313 ($1.3M) Expenses 620 ($818k) Net assets 1140 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 1689 ($1.7M) Expenses 1061 ($1.4M) Net assets 1430 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 1695 ($1.7M) Expenses 1423 ($1.9M) Net assets 1252 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 1439 ($1.4M) Expenses 1310 ($1.7M) Net assets 960 ($960k)2023 Revenue 1765 ($1.8M) Expenses 1356 ($1.8M) Net assets 939 ($939k)2024 Revenue 1730 ($1.7M) Expenses 1501 ($2.0M) Net assets 686 ($686k)2025 Revenue 1860 ($1.9M) Expenses 1508 ($2.0M) Net assets 664 ($664k)
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Revenue (1860)Expenses (1508)Net assets (664)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $100k to $641k (+541%).

$100k
$641k
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$997k
$950k
$683k
$663k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of PRISM REPORTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$100k
’17
$538k
’18
$495k
’19
$289k
’20
−$182k
’21
−$289k
’22
−$24k
’23
−$250k
’24
−$130k
’25
3.6
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

Ashton Lattimore

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed83556776
Joined·+0+3+0+3+1+0+0
No longer listed·5102001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $419k → $2.0M.

11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 PRISM REPORTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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

PRISM REPORTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

58% 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 PRISM REPORTS INC.

29%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 72% · 2020 41% · 2021 43% · 2022 42% · 2023 24% — 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.

How long its funders stay

35% of PRISM REPORTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

PRISM REPORTS INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
DC

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PRISM REPORTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PRISM REPORTS 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 13%Fundraising 7%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PRISM REPORTS INC?
PRISM REPORTS INC (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,190,735 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($2,342,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PRISM REPORTS INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $8,190,735 in grants to PRISM REPORTS INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRISM REPORTS INC?
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,342,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRISM REPORTS INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing