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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “journalists”
Where the money went
Largest: $25,000 to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC JOURNALISTS — to advance journalistic excellence and increase the number of hispanic journalists and leaders in the field by supporting the 2022-2024 annual conferences of the national associati…
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
79 matching grants · $6.6M · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to THE SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS INC — in support of 10 diversity travel fellowships for historically under-represented journalists to attend the 33rd annual society of environmental journalists conference
Largest: $100,000 to INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC — for the africa women journalism project to empower women journalists with the skills and capacity to deliver high-quality reporting on gender-based violence in ghana, nigeria and s…
Largest: $13,758 to HARVARD U — 77641 hiring a health journalist for harvard's journalist's resource program to report on health equity research to help improve news coverage of the topic
Largest: $675,706 to International Center for Journalists Inc — journalism grant - disarming disinformation
Largest: $500,000 to International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) — support investigative journalists to carry out impactful cross-border investigation
Largest: $589,516 to JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — to pool advocacy and improve practices that strengthen international protection access for displaced journalists and human rights defenders
Largest: $75,000 to COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS — promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the rights of journalists to report the news safely.
Largest: $29,000 to National Association of Black Journalists — national association of black journalists conference: a panel on reproductive health
Largest: $125,000 to University of Southern California — support child health/well-being journalists completing fellowship program
Largest: $25,000 to ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION — los angeles chapter - uplifting asian americans via health journalism: to uplift the voices of the asian american and pacific islander community by educating health journalists and…
Largest: $1.0M to COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS — to support committee to protect journalists' campaign for its press freedom center
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →