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SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN

SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being Society for News Design Foundation Inc ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$183k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$200k
Net assets
$192k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01The 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 ($488k) Expenses 100 ($476k) Net assets 100 ($272k)2018 Revenue 106 ($518k) Expenses 110 ($523k) Net assets 90 ($243k)2019 Revenue 64 ($311k) Expenses 100 ($476k) Net assets 49 ($132k)2020 Revenue 42 ($203k) Expenses 56 ($268k) Net assets 30 ($82k)2021 Revenue 41 ($202k) Expenses 22 ($106k) Net assets 63 ($170k)2022 Revenue 40 ($197k) Expenses 36 ($171k) Net assets 75 ($203k)2023 Revenue 45 ($218k) Expenses 59 ($281k) Net assets 49 ($132k)2024 Revenue 37 ($183k) Expenses 26 ($124k) Net assets 71 ($192k)
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Revenue (37)Expenses (26)Net assets (71)

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 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
−$5k
’18
−$165k
’19
−$65k
’20
$96k
’21
$26k
’22
−$62k
’23
$59k
’24
7.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

FL

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

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’18
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN

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 North Carolina

American Society for Precision Engineering Inc67%States Newsroom65%The Center for Documentary Studies64%North Carolina Hands & Voices64%National Sports Media Association Inc64%International Society of Furniture Designers64%North Carolina Society of Surveyors64%News Foundation of Greater Fayetteville63%

Nationally

Society for News Design Foundation Inc81%The American Institute of Graphic Arts N76%Sustainable Journalism Foundation71%Segd69%Overseas Press Club of America Inc69%National Association of Black Journalists Los Angeles69%Tennessee Society of Architects69%The Philadelphia Photo Review69%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

41% of spending goes to programs.

Program 41%Management 59%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN?
SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being Society for News Design Foundation Inc ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200,000 in grants to SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN?
Society for News Design Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing