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SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,450 to it, the largest being The Hussman Foundation ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $827k
What Society of Professional Journalists does
Mission
The society is a national professional organization for journalists, the purpose of which is to aid, encourage, and promote a free press, high professional standards, and ethical behavior in the practice of journalism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The annual convention, spj23, was held in las vegas, nevada, in october and brings together professional, student and retired journalists for education, training, networking and much more. Attendees work in online, print, broadcast journalism and includes a large group of freelance journalists from across the country. Attendees hear from renowned speakers and benefit from hands-on workshops, general sessions and concurrent breakout sessions. They enjoy networking opportunities and an exhibit hall where some exhibitors are promoting job openings. Student journalism is celebrated at a reception and the new spj president is sworn in during the president's banquet on the last night of the convention. There are also opportunities to get out to explore and tour the convention host city. Other convenings spj hosts include future leaders academy, where spj members learn how to be strong leaders within the organization and in other areas of their lives.
Spj also recognizes aspiring journalists and the achievements of both student and professional journalists through its mark of excellence awards and sigma delta chi awards. From hundreds of submissions each year, award winners from across the country are recognized for their outstanding work in all platforms of journalism.
Spj works to raise awareness and advocate for freedom of the press and the first amendment. It does this through programs like ethics week, sunshine week and its ethics response hotline. This is all part of a larger effort to disseminate information about ethical journalism, educate the public about the importance of a free and unfettered press and advocate for journalists' rights.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $1.4M to $1.1M (−24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $3k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Society of Professional Journalists Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS raised.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS’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
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 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
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Society of Professional Journalists Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: 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 SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS?
- SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,450 to it, the largest being The Hussman Foundation ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $14,450 in grants to SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS?
- The Hussman Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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