Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation supports journalism by funding documentary films, supporting authors and journalists researching nonfiction articles and books, preserving newspaper archives, and producing podcasts. Recipients of its grant funding include prominent left-of-center nonprofit journalism entities, including Institute for Nonprofit News, Report for America, and Fund for Investigative Journalism.

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Multi-Issue Advocacy
Website: jonathanloganfamilyfoundation.org
Location: Oakland, CA View on map
Tax ID: 47-2268391
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2024): Assets: $104,740,376 Revenue: $31,002,502 Expenses: $12,204,926

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    Jonathan Logan

    Jonathan Logan is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a board member of the Center for Investigative Journalism/Reveal and is also on the board of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. 1

    Logan Nonfiction Program

    The foundation created the Logan Nonfiction Program, a division of the Carey Institute for Common Good, which received $400,000 from the foundation in 2019 and $1 million in 2021. The program, also supported by the Open Society Foundations, has had as fellows Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg; Jessica Bruder, whose book Nomadland was turned into a film; and David Zucchino, whose book Wilmington’s Lie won a Pulitzer Prize in 2021. 2

    Newspaper Support

    The foundation supports two nonprofits that subsidize positions at newspapers. In 2019, the foundation, through Report for America, paid for reporters at the Baltimore Sun and Annapolis Capital Gazette. 3 Report for America lists the foundation as one of its major supporters, along with the Knight, Robert Wood Johnson, Joyce, Lumina, MacArthur, and Annie E. Casey Foundations, among others. 4

    Nonprofit News Efforts

    The Logan Family Foundation supports (along with the Knight, Hewlett, Walton Family, and Wyncote Foundations), NewsMatch, a program of the Institute for Nonprofit News that provided $6 million in matching grants to 77 nonprofit news organizations in November and December 2021. 5

    Another journalism grant went to the Fund for Investigative Journalism, which received $125,000 from the Logan Family Foundation in 2019 to support a staff member of Inside Climate News. 6 The foundation in 2019 gave a $170,000 grant to The Nation Institute for a two-year fellowship. 7

    University Programs

    The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation supports programs for documentary filmmaking at Spelman College 8 and “urban investigative journalism” at Temple University, which received a donation of $1.2 million from the foundation to create a journalism center that “focuses exclusively on … gun violence, economic inequality, education and health disparities, crumbling infrastructure and eroding trust in institutions.” 9

    In February 2022 the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation donated $2 million to Howard University to preserve and digitize the Black Press Archives, a collection of several thousand reels of microfilm currently stored at the Howard University library. 10

    Howard University Center for Journalism and Democracy director Nikole Hannah-Jones said the center would seek additional grants to support the preservation of the Black newspaper archive.  “For generations, the stories of Black people in America were not deemed worthy of telling by the newspapers delivered to the homes of white people,” Hannah-Jones said, adding that the Logan Family Foundation grant was “a tremendous gift not just to Howard but to the nation and the world.” 10

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2024 $104,740,376 $31,002,502 $12,204,926 View
    2023 $105,567,074 $22,532,707 $9,766,627 View
    2022 $98,582,346 $41,195,619 $11,200,803 View
    2021 $106,499,072 $5,361,136 $10,910,825 View
    2020 $92,505,977 $6,849,778 $10,633,567 View

    Prior year filings: 2019, 2015, 2014

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    Barbara RaabEMPLOYEE$257,431
    Susanne Karin ZuerbigTREASURER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS$193,294
    Theresa BoylanEMPLOYEE$118,972

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $92,645,928
    • Number of Grants: 2
    • Number of Funders: 2

    All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $60,732,730
    • Number of Grants: 418
    • Number of Recipients: 185

    Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $2,000,0002021 University of Chicago – Gray CenterSTORYTELLING OVER 4 YEARS
    $1,300,0002022 New Venture FundVOTER ENGAGEMENT FUND, ISRC EDUCATION FUND, TRUSTED ELECTIONS FUND
    $1,000,0002024 New Venture FundTRUSTED ELECTIONS FUND
    $600,0002024 Foundation for National ProgressALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FOR THE GENERAL CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY OR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF EACH DONEE ORGANIZATION
    $557,0002021 Howard UniversityDIGITIZATION OF THE BLACK PRESS ARCHIVES, AS PART OF THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND JOURNALISM
    $551,5002024 Howard UniversityDIGITIZATION OF THE BLACK PRESS ARCHIVE
    $550,0002022 Invisible InstituteORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    $528,0002021 Hilltown Commons IncLOGAN NONFICTION PROGRAM
    $508,0002023 Invisible InstituteORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    $500,0002024 Campaign Legal Center IncPROTECTING VOTER ACCESS
    $500,0002024 Hopewell FundFREE ELECTION FUND
    $500,0002024 Voter Registration ProjectALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FOR THE GENERAL CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY OR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF EACH DONEE ORGANIZATION
    $500,0002022 Berkeley Repertory TheatreTO FURTHER THE EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION
    $500,0002022 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists IncTO FURTHER THE EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION
    $500,0002022 NEO PhilanthropyTO FURTHER THE EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION
    $500,0002021 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists IncGENERAL OPERATING
    $500,0002021 NEO PhilanthropyFOR THE STATE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND
    $500,0002020 Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncFOR THE WAY TO RISE FUND
    $500,0002020 Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under LawTO SUPPORT THE ELECTION PROTECTION COALITION
    $500,0002020 NEO PhilanthropyFOR THE STATE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND
    $500,0002020 New Venture FundFOR THE FAIR REPRESENTATION IN REDISTRICTING PROJECT
    $477,0002022 Hilltown Commons IncLOGAN NONFICTION PROGRAM
    $450,0002024 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists IncALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE FOR THE GENERAL CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY OR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF EACH DONEE ORGANIZATION
    $419,5002021 Temple UniversityFOR THE CREATION OF THE JONTHAN LOGAN CENTER FOR URBAN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
    $400,0002024 International Documentary AssociationELEVATE GRANTS AND GETTING REAL CONFERENCE 3 YEARS

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    References

    1. “Jonathan Logan,” University of California (Berkeley) Journalism School, https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/jonathan-logan/ (accessed March 4, 2022)
    2. “Logan Nonfiction Program Awards $1 Million Grant,” https://logannonfiction.org/logan-nonfiction-program-announces-1-million-grant/ (accessed March 4, 2022) 2019 Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Form 990
    3. [1]  Lilian Reed, “Report for America To Place Reporters at The Baltimore Sun, capital Gazette To Cover Underserved Communities,” Baltimore Sun, December 2, 2019.
    4. “Supporters.” Report for America, December 23, 2021. https://www.reportforamerica.org/supporters/.
    5. [1]  Sarah Soire, “The Institute for Nonprofit News Raised A Record $12 Million for NewsMatch in 2021,” Nieman Journalism Lab, January 4, 2022).
    6. “Inside Climate News To Host 2019 Investigative Journalism Fellow,” press release from Inside Climate News, July 17, 2019.  2019 Jonathan Logan Family Foundation form 990.
    7. 2019 Jonathan Logan Family Foundation form 990.
    8. “Funding From the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation To. Support Students studying Documentary Filmmaking and Photography,” press release from Spelman College, September 17, 2020, https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/news-and-events/news-releases/2020/09/17/funding-from-the-jonathan-logan-family-foundation-to-support-students-studying-documentary-filmmaking-and-photography (accessed March 4, 2022)
    9. “Klein College Establishes Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting,” press release from Temple University, July 20, 2021, https://klein.temple.edu/news/2021/07/klein-college-establishes-logan-center-urban-investigative-reporting (accessed March 4, 2022).
    10. “Black Press Archives At Howard University Gets P[reserved, Digitized Thanks to $2M Grant,” press release from Howard University, February 22, 2022, https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/black-press-archives-howard-university-gets-preserved-digitized-thanks-2m-grant (accessed March 4, 2022)