New York · Nonprofit
Pro News Coaches
Pro News Coaches (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $72,361 to it, the largest being LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ($72,361). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Pro News Coaches does
Mission
Pro News Coaches, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Wall Street Journal alumni, offers coaching, mentoring and related services to local news organizations nationwide. As independent newsrooms shrink and disappear at an alarming rate, many communities have limited access to trusted local and regional news. We work with reporters and editors to develop research and investigative skills, expand public service coverage, and strengthen the communities they serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pro News Coaches added coaching projects at ten individual newsrooms to its alumni volunteers' roster in 2025, including projects in Interlochen, Mich., and Philadelphia. PNC's volunteer work also expanded in 2025 into newsroom training. Alumni volunteers led sessions on health-care reporting, breaking-news coverage, editing, and writing skills for reporters and editors at States Newsroom, a nonprofit providing coverage from the capitals of every U.S. state. We are also now partnered with the Center for Cooperative Media and the Lenfest Institute to offer as-needed editorial services to their members.
$21,153 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,153.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
F James Pensiero
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Pro News Coaches’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.
Where its funders are
Pro News Coaches draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
Pro News Coaches runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,129 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,129 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Pro News Coaches
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pro News Coaches: 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 Pro News Coaches?
- Pro News Coaches (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $72,361 to it, the largest being LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ($72,361). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pro News Coaches have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $72,361 in grants to Pro News Coaches, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pro News Coaches?
- LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $72,361 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pro News Coaches 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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