Grants for nonprofit publishers

Name: Top 25 grants made to nonprofit presses and publishers
Creator: Cause IQ
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479 nonprofit presses and publishers received at least $20.9 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 763 grants made from 606 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 606 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to publishers, and 2% made grants to four or more publishers. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$20,927,952

Total grant dollars given to nonprofit publishers

763

Number of grants made annually to nonprofit publishers

606

Number of grantmakers funding nonprofit publishers

$1,000

Median grant size to nonprofit publishers

Foundations that support nonprofit presses and publishers

Out of all grants made to nonprofit publishers, 74% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 93% of the dollar-value of grants to publishers. Foundations funding publishers also made grants to international humanitarian organizations, educational service providers, environmental education programs, multiservice human service organizations, and high schools.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	451
Medium	73
Large	82

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	18
Private	528
Corporate	35
Other	25

Grants made

Grants made to publishers	Number of grantmakers
1	523
2-3	70
4-10	12
11+	1

Top 10 foundations supporting nonprofit presses and publishers

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to publishers	Number of grants made to publishers	Median grant size
Gannett Foundation	VA	National	0.1%	13	$100
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	10	$120
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	8	$1,000
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)	NJ	National	0.0%	8	$150
Liberty Hill Foundation	CA	Metro	0.1%	7	$1,000
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.0%	7	$225
Greater Worcester Community Foundation	MA	Metro	0.3%	6	$2,120
J M Kaplan Fund	NY	State	0.3%	5	$4,000
George E. Coleman Jr. Foundation	DC	National	2.5%	5	$3,000
Lenfestey Family Foundation	WI	Metro	4.5%	5	$1,000

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Nonprofit presses and publishers grantees

Nonprofit publishers with more than $5 million in total revenues received 95% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 33% of all publishers.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	758
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	5

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,000
$500k-$1M	$1,000
$1M-$5M	$1,000
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	203
Virginia	76
California	76
District of Columbia	62
Other	346

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	195
Washington DC	138
Philadelphia	40
Boston	36
Other	297

Top 25 grants made to nonprofit publishers

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Harper's Magazine Foundation	$4,965,000	To Support the Continuing Operations of Harper's Magazine	Roderick MacArthur Foundation
MIT Technology Review	$4,512,964	Cash	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT Technology Review	$4,512,964	Contribution	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
ProPublica	$3,000,000	General Support	Sandler Foundation
Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy	$2,532,429	John Tartovsky	Thomas D. Klingenstein Fund
The Brooklyn Rail	$5,000	Grant in Support of An Educational Project, "we the Immigrants" Issue of the Brooklyn Rail Newspaper, and A Public Information Campaign and Website About Immigrants' Cultural Contributions in the United States.	The Vilcek Foundation
The Library of American Landscape History	$5,000	General Purpose Contribution	The Letterman Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming
Boa Editions	$5,000	Unrestricted General	Mary S Mulligan Charitable Trust
The Future of Freedom Foundation	$5,000	General Fund	Susquehanna Foundation
Young Voices	$5,000	General Fund	Susquehanna Foundation
Type Media Center	$5,000	General Operating	Cepreghy Foundation
National Braille Press	$5,000	Aid for Blind	Delta Gamma Foundation
Friends Publishing Corporation	$5,000	Grant Distribution To Support Friends Journal	Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines
Foundation for Shamanic Studies	$5,000	General Purpose	Triangle Community Foundation
Oxford American	$5,000	To Support the Oxford American Literary Project, Inc	Arkansas Community Foundation
Mask Mothers Awareness on School Age Kids	$5,000	General Funds	Jaburg and Wilk Foundation
Inside Books Project	$5,000	General Operating Support	Greater Tacoma Community Foundation (GTCF)
South Seattle Emerald	$5,000	Democracy	Proteus Fund
Worcester County Poetry Association	$5,000	Worcester Clemente Course in the Humanities	Greater Worcester Community Foundation
Angels Net Foundation	$5,000	Educational and Social Programs for Immigrant and Refugee Youth	Greater Worcester Community Foundation
National Braille Press	$5,000	Services To the Blind and Handicapped	Eastman Charitable Foundation
League of Women Voters of Sarasota County Education Fund	$5,000	Civic	Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Bright Hill Press	$5,000	Increasing Organizational Capacity of A Cultural Organization in Upstate New York	JM McDonald Foundation
Media Matters for America	$5,000	Progressive Research & Information To Monitor, Analyze, & Correct Conservative Misinformation in Us Media	Harrington Family Foundation
ClassCrits	$5,000	Idp Subgrant: Neoliberalism Conference (Ideas Lab)	DEMOS A Network For Ideas and Action

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Nonprofit publishers" category for this page is determined by the "A33: Printing, Publishing" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.