The News Literacy Project is the nonprofit grantor named in KKTV's report that Academy District 20 received a $30,000 District Fellowship grant to support news-literacy instruction. In this repository, the entity currently matters as a grantor and curriculum-support organization, not as evidence of D20 campaign, board-election, or governance-conflict activity.
News Literacy Project Inc27-40113433; first-party pages describe the organization as a registered 501(c)(3) charity.B802011-03-012025-06-01$9,461,945, income amount $11,637,431, asset amount $11,240,390$30,000 fellowship grant plus customized support for districtwide news-literacy instructionThe first-party fellowship pages describe a three-year program that provides $30,000 over three years, free resources, professional learning, curriculum guidance, and expert support. The application page frames the fellowship as support for district leaders to design and implement districtwide news and media literacy education.
The application page adds a more specific funding-administration rule: NLP provides at least $10,000 each year of the program, districts may spend that support in any way fellows deem aligned to their plan, district finance policies still apply, and fellows must record spending and share the record with NLP. This is direct for the program model, but it does not identify the donor or budget line behind D20's reported award.
The retained Colorado precedent is Gunnison Watershed School District. News Literacy Project's Gunnison story describes fellowship support for professional development, classroom resources, and a schoolwide news-literacy initiative. This helps contextualize the mechanism D20 may be entering, but it does not prove D20's implementation plan.
The retained Checkology page describes the organization's classroom platform as designed for grades 5-12 and including free resources, student accounts, assignable interactive lessons and activities, an online grade book, a teacher dashboard, and standards alignment. That is a plausible resource lane for D20 implementation, but the D20-specific record currently says only that high school librarians and teachers will develop a scope and sequence.
News Literacy Project's financials page links annual Form 990 filings and annual reports. Its supporter page says the published supporter list is based on contributions received in the prior 12 months and was last updated 2026-04-15. Listed large supporters include anonymous donors, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Melanie and Richard Lundquist, OpenAI Foundation, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Huron Philanthropies, News Corp, Argosy Foundation, Dow Jones Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, and other named donors or funds.
This donor context should be kept separate from the D20 grant claim. The retained sources do not identify which donor or restricted fund supports the D20 award.
News Literacy Project's first-party board page describes a board with journalism, education, business, and politically varied leadership. The captured roster includes Whit Ayres, Geraldine Baum, Tucker Eskew, Jon Gold, Sandy Helton, Peter Kadzik, Melanie Lundquist, William McKenzie, Alan C. Miller, Walt Mossberg, Abby Phillip, Liz Ramos, Charles Salter, Karen Wickre, and Catherine Woodard.
| Source | Target | Mechanism | Flow | Evidence strength | Source basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News Literacy Project | Academy District 20 | District Fellowship grant and implementation support | Money, curriculum support, professional learning, institutional legitimacy | reported relationship for D20 award; direct for program model | KKTV report and first-party fellowship pages |
| News Literacy Project supporters | News Literacy Project | donations / contributions | money | direct for first-party supporter list; unresolved for restrictions | News Literacy Project supporter page |
| News Literacy Project | Gunnison Watershed School District | District Fellowship support | money, professional development, curriculum support | direct first-party program narrative | News Literacy Project Gunnison story |
$30,000 award.wiki/summaries/education/academy-district-20-news-literacy-project-district-fellowship-source-cluster.md: source-cluster summary for the D20 grant report and granting-organization context.raw/other/news-literacy-project-district-fellowship-2026-04-29/source-note.md: raw companion note listing retained first-party News Literacy Project pages and ProPublica API capture.raw/articles/2026-04-29T183111-0600 District 20 awarded $30,000 grant to teach news literacy to students.md: KKTV article reporting the D20 award.