New Jersey · Nonprofit
PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED
PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,211 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY CIVIC INFORMATION CONSORTIUM A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($240,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $435k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Public Square Amplified does
Mission
Public Square Amplified uses journalism as a civic tool, training new local journalists.Reporting focuses on social and economic justice, racial equity, the climate crisis andimmigrant experiences, highlighting issues affecting Newark and surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Newaroom reporting, publicatio, and training benefit the general public and an internal team of twenty individuals through informed journalism and skill development.
$129,498 spentof which $179,048 as grants$181,885 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $129,498.
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 $7k to $123k (+1582%).
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.
98% of PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED’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 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.
Chief executive
Josie Gonsalves
President and executive director
Board chair
Wayne Winborne
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $101k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED’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
PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
100% 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 PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 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
58% of PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED: 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 PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED?
- PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED (New Jersey) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,211 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY CIVIC INFORMATION CONSORTIUM A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($240,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $435,211 in grants to PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED?
- NEW JERSEY CIVIC INFORMATION CONSORTIUM A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC SQUARE AMPLIFIED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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