Local Media Association
Lake City, MI · EIN 52-0914204. Reported 96 grants totalling $4,093,880 to 77 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 77 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $16,666 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $135,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Defender Newspaper Inc | Houston, TX | $251,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New York Amsterdam News | New York, NY | $191,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lee Publishing Inc the Observer Newspaper | Sacramento, CA | $156,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Afro American Company of Baltimore City | Baltimore, MD | $151,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Seattle Medium | Seattle, WA | $141,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Voice News Network Inc | Atlanta, GA | $141,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Michigan Chronicle | Detroit, MI | $128,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Publishing Company Dba St Louis American Newspaper | Saint Louis, MO | $91,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Dallas Weekly | Dallas, TX | $91,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Washington Informer | Washington, DC | $91,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 365 Media Foundation Inc | Madison, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Accelerate Action Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Afro American Company of Baltimore City | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Block Club Chicago Nfp | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Canopy Atlanta | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Capital Journal | Pierre, SD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cardinal Productions | Roanoke, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Charlottesville Tomorrow | Charlottesvle, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chatman Media Group LLC Dba Chatman News | Silver City, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Foundation for Mississippi | Jackson, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Concord Publishing House Inc | Cape Girardeua, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Deep South Today | Jackson, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Documented Ltd | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eastern Oregon Publishing Company | Bend, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| El Paso Matters Inc | El Paso, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Embarcadero Media Dpa Palto Alto Weekly | Palo Alto, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Enlace Latino Nc Inc | Knightdale, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Examiner Media LLC | Mount Kisco, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gazette Communications Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Glenn Oaks Media LLC Dba Qcitymetro Gle | Charlotte, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grist Magazine Inc | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Indian County Media LLC | Grand Rapids, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inkmango Inc the Juggernaut | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Investigative Newsource | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kalita Mukul Creative Inc | Jackson Heights, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Keene Publishing Corporation | Keene, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Land Cle | Cleveland, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lewiston Tribune | Lewiston, ID | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mckenna Publishing Company | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mendocino News Media LLC | Willits, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Montana Free Press | Helena, MT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Muckrock Foundation Incorporated | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Bedford Light | New Bedford, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Next City Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Osteen Publishing Co Dba the Sumnter I | Sumter, SC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pacific Community Media Dba Long Beach P | Long Beach, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pamplin Media Group | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Phoenix-Times Publishing Co Dba East Bay Media Group | Bristol, RI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Post Publishing Inc | Prairie Village, KS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Record Journal | Meriden, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Restoration Newsmedia | Wilson, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Searchlight New Mexico News | Santa Fe, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shaw Suburban Media Group | Crystal Lake, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sherrell Dorsey | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sun-Times Holdings LLC | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Michigan Banner | Saginaw, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The State Port Pilot Inc | Southport, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| War Horse News | Cleveland, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yakima Herald Republic | Yakima, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Word in Black Pbc | Washington, DC | $34,880 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blavity Inc | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Earl G Graves Publishing Co | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Entertainment Studios Digital Media LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Essence Communications Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Interactive One LLC | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nextshark Inc | Newport Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Univision Interactive Media Inc | Teaneck, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bar Media Inc | San Francisco, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brown Naff Pitts Omnimedia Inc | Washington, DC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lambda Publications Inc | Chicago, IL | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Masco Communications | Philadelphia, PA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tagg Communications LLC | Washington, DC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Voice Publishing Company Inc | Dallas, TX | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brown Publishing Company LLC | Riverside, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Btownsend Social Enterprises LLC | San Bernardino, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Charlotte Post Publishing Company | Charlotte, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
11 of 77 (14%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Houston Defender Newspaper Inc
READER REVENUE INITIATIVE - Accelerate Action
ACCELERATE MEDIA VIDEO OFFERINGS - Community Foundation for Missisippi
STIPEND FOR READER REVENUE INITIATIVE PROJECTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 77 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $1,200,000 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 41 | $1,653,330 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $1,014,164 | $85,000 |
| 2024 | 15 | $226,386 | $6,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
10% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Local Media Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 450, Lake City, MI, 49651.
EIN 52-0914204 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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