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Nonprofit Investigative & Community Journalism

Every indexed organization working in the activity groups below — who they are, where they operate, and the approaches they share.

01 Nonprofit Investigative & Community Journalism · 162 activities edit slice
111
orgs
162
activities
49
strategies
NY
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 111 organizations and 162 activities — CIVIC NEWS COMPANY, NEW YORK FOCUS, PRO PUBLICA, PROJECT VERITAS ACTION FUND and others. Activity concentrates in New York (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Independence-First Funding Model", run by 16 orgs.
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where this slice is thin

Gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

Geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
New York 100% · 111 orgs
who's here

Organizations in this field · 111

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

Funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Ford Foundation 2
Foundation
ACLU 1
Foundation
Adobe 1
Corporate
Ag Insider subscribers 1
Earned
Amazon 1
Corporate
Amsterdam News 1
Corporate
Ascendium Foundation 1
Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 1
Foundation
Blue Chip Foundation 1
Foundation
Blue Point Brewing Co. 1
Corporate
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo 1
Foundation
Content Authenticity Initiative 1
Corporate
Deambulantes 1
Individuals
EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER 1
Foundation
how the field thinks

Strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

Strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Independence-First Funding Model
25
5
8
Community-Driven Media Empowerment
15
2
3
1
Amplification for Change
10
2
1
Community-Led Systems Change
4
3
Investigative Journalism for Accountability
7
3
6
Journalism as Civic Infrastructure
5
1
Mentorship-to-Leadership Pipeline
4
2
Information as Systemic Leverage
3
1
3
who works with whom

Named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks — relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

The New York Times Partner
shared by 12 orgs
NPR Partner
shared by 10 orgs
CNN Partner
shared by 8 orgs
New York Times Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Institute for Nonprofit News Network
shared by 5 orgs
ProPublica Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Google Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Open Society Foundations Funder
shared by 4 orgs
Twitter Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Ford Foundation Funder
shared by 3 orgs
Ford Foundation Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Knight Foundation Funder
shared by 3 orgs
MacArthur Foundation Funder
shared by 3 orgs
New York University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Rolling Stone Partner
shared by 3 orgs