New York · Nonprofit
TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC
TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,504,835 to it, the largest being THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION LTD (F/K/A PUFFIN NEW JERSEY INC) ($1,457,900). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Type Media Center Inc does
Mission
Producing journalism & literary nonfiction that addresses injustice & catalyzes social change
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Type investigations is a home for ambitious independent investigative journalism. We tell deeply reported stories in partnership with print, broadcast, and digital media outlets allowing us to bring our work to a wide range of audiences. Our team provides journalists with expert editorial guidance; rigorous fact-checking; research assistance; and funds to cover their travel, time, and other reporting costs.
$1,117,381 spentof which $177,500 as grants52% of program spendingThe fellowship program provides emerging and established journalists with the support needed to write on complex issues. Our fellows form aunique community of thinkers and writers.
$378,154 spentof which $306,000 as grants18% of program spendingBold type books works to publish bold, ambitious books that tackle issues of public concern and challenge entrenched systems of power. We amplify the voices of writers and thinkers producing urgent, deeply researched journalism, creative nonfiction, cultural analysis and social history. Many of our titles have won significant awards including the national book award, and the kirkus prize
$92,560 spent4% of program spendingType media center administers prizes that spotlight invaluable achievements of others. Each prize is accompanied by a financial award, providing material support for future work. These prizes include the puffin prize for creative citizenship and the ridenhour prize, which allow us to publicly support acts of bravery.type media center houses tomdispatch, a website that features regular commentaries on u.s. Foreign policy.
$567,694 spentof which $191,868 as grants$12,595 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,155,789.
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.
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 $6.3M to $7.4M (+18%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 6% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of TYPE MEDIA CENTER 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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Taya Mccormick-Grobow
Executive director & CEO
Board chair
Jeff Kusama-Hinte
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 29 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.6M.
21 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
34% 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 TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 29% · 2023 22% — 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
40% of TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TYPE MEDIA CENTER 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TYPE MEDIA CENTER 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 TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC?
- TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,504,835 to it, the largest being THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION LTD (F/K/A PUFFIN NEW JERSEY INC) ($1,457,900). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $14,504,835 in grants to TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC?
- THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION LTD (F/K/A PUFFIN NEW JERSEY INC) is the largest funder on record, with $1,457,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC 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.
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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 85 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