New York · Nonprofit
TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,257 to it, the largest being The Tiny News Collective Inc ($111,257). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $684k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $307k
- Net assets
- $691k
What Trans Journalists Association does
Mission
Tja's central charitable and educational mission is to support rigorous, respectful reporting on trans communities through outreach to newsrooms, and to increase trans journalists' opportunities for success in the media industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Level Up - Designed to help journalists achieve their career development goals, this program covers small, one time costs (via $250 and $500 stipends) for journalists seeking to attend a conference, participate in a skills workshop, or take career-enhancing training. We also prioritized applicants who are particularly invested in covering gender justice or speaking to the broader journalism industry, which furthers TJA's coverage goals. For our inaugural round, we set aside stipends specifically for student journalists and early-career journalists who never attended a formal journalism program. In total across two rounds, we directly invested $27,000 into the careers of 53 members. Additional expenses went to marketing, promotion, and program management.
$45,880 spentof which $27,000 as grants21% of program spendingCoverage outreach - Our coverage outreach efforts happened in partnership with or at meetings, events, and conferences hosted by organizational partners. The partners include the National Press Club, the National Association of Science Writers, ACES: The Society for Editing, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Education Writers Association, the New England Scholastic Press Association, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY among others. We also continued to publish, at least once a month, a newsletter with timely coverage guidance and reporting resources.
$44,775 spent21% of program spendingMember training - Our newly launched membership system grew to almost 600 people, a mix of longtime members and new faces joining the fresh, updated website. In response, the organization continued to develop timely and relevant professional development and training opportunities, including session on coping with stress, trauma, and burnout; filing public information requests; digital safety and security; and best practices for covering extremism and political violence.
$33,839 spent16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$93,565 spent43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $218,059.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $5k to $378k (+7319%).
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.
81% of TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (55% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION.
“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
TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,526 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,526 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% 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 TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION: 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 TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION?
- TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,257 to it, the largest being The Tiny News Collective Inc ($111,257). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $307,257 in grants to TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION?
- The Tiny News Collective Inc is the largest funder on record, with $111,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANS JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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