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TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE

TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,414 to it, the largest being Health Professionals Network for Tigray ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$241k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$94k
Net assets
$0
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Tigrai Media House Dba Tigrai Media House does

Mission

To facilitate the exchange of information, promote community dialogue, become a preferred news source, provide a high-quality platform for policy reviews and scholarly engagement, to provide a trusted and truthful analysis, work for the best interest of the audience, impartially entertain all perspectives impartially entertain all perspectives about Ethiopians

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. A television broadcast that works towards the mission is launched

    $260,678 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $260,678.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($250k) Expenses 100 ($249k) Net assets 100 ($699)2020 Revenue 186 ($465k) Expenses 128 ($319k) Net assets 20972 ($147k)2021 Revenue 625 ($1.6M) Expenses 435 ($1.1M) Net assets 89396 ($625k)2022 Revenue 95 ($236k) Expenses 417 ($1.0M) Net assets -25284 ($-176735)2023 Revenue 97 ($241k) Expenses 114 ($284k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (97)Expenses (114)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $625k to $41k (−93%).

$699
$147k
$625k
$41k
$246k
20192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$699
’19
$146k
’20
$478k
’21
−$802k
’22
−$43k
’23
0.1
months of
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.

20192020202120222023
Listed33333
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $32k → $62k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE’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

TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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 TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE.

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 81% — 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

TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

OR

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE?
TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,414 to it, the largest being Health Professionals Network for Tigray ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $94,414 in grants to TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE?
Health Professionals Network for Tigray is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE DBA TIGRAI MEDIA HOUSE 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 2 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