Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Tiny News Collective Inc
The Tiny News Collective Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,099,872 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($1,290,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What The Tiny News Collective Inc does
Mission
We provide the tools, resources and commonwealth of knowledge to help people build sustainable news organizations that reflect and serve their communities. We support voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Tiny News Collective supported a growing number of small and early-stage media entrepreneurs with coaching, infrastructure and shared services. Primary programs focused on fiscal sponsorship to members and clients, and member services, tech support and consulting to new and existing members, as well as monthly collective calls, workshops and open office hours. TNC worked on research and development projects related to advertising and a data/metrics program specifically for small and early stage news media entrepreneurs.
$3,404,128 spentof which $2,577,239 as grants$53,703 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,404,128.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $2.0M to $5.7M (+191%).
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.
97% of The Tiny News Collective Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Amy Kovac Ashley
Executive Director
Board chair
Lillian Ruiz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $206k → $1.4M.
16 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Tiny News Collective Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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 Tiny News Collective Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
39% 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 Tiny News Collective Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 68% · 2023 21% — 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.
Where its funders are
The Tiny News Collective Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
The Tiny News Collective Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Tiny News Collective 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Tiny News Collective 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 Tiny News Collective Inc?
- The Tiny News Collective Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,099,872 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($1,290,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Tiny News Collective Inc have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $6,099,872 in grants to The Tiny News Collective Inc, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Tiny News Collective Inc?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Tiny News Collective Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 52 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