Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The National Press Foundation Inc
The National Press Foundation Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,208,980 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,051,800). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What The National Press Foundation Inc does
Mission
To increase journalists knowledge of complex issues to improve public understanding and to encourage excellence in journalism through awards and programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Widening the Pipeline - Held a year-long fellowship program for 25 early-career journalists. The training was designed to educate, mentor, inspire and uplift a cohort of talented young journalists and prepare them for leadership positions in U.S. newsrooms.
$172,935 spent12% of program spendingCovering Equitable Community Development - An intensive four-day fellowship for two dozen journalists in Missoula, Montana. Missoula was selected as the training site to get journalists out of the bicoastal mindset that dominates the industry and focus on smaller cities and more rural communities.
$160,543 spent12% of program spendingInternational Trade Reporting Fellowship - A four-day fellowship for 25 journalists from more than a dozen nations across Asia. The program reviewed the latest issues confronting international trade.
$142,327 spent10% of program spendingOther program expenses
$917,237 spentof which $154,912 as grants$5,662 earned by the program66% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,393,042.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $6.4M to $7.1M (+11%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Terence Samuel
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $178k → $1.2M.
3 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 The National Press Foundation Inc’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
The National Press Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
51% 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 The National Press Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 30% · 2020 35% · 2021 41% · 2022 50% · 2023 27% — 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
58% of The National Press Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
The National Press Foundation Inc draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like The National Press Foundation 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The National Press Foundation Inc: 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 The National Press Foundation Inc?
- The National Press Foundation Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,208,980 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,051,800). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The National Press Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,208,980 in grants to The National Press Foundation Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The National Press Foundation Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,051,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The National Press Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 28 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