This source cluster processes a KKTV article reporting that Academy District 20 received a $30,000 grant through the News Literacy Project District Fellowship, then adds first-party and nonprofit-record context for the granting organization. The D20-specific award is currently supported as a reported relationship, not by a retained award letter or district-side record.
The triggering source is a 2026-04-29 KKTV article by Tyson Sintas. It reports that District 20 was accepted into the News Literacy Project's District Fellowship and awarded a $30,000 grant to support districtwide news-literacy instruction. The follow-up source package preserves News Literacy Project fellowship, application, Colorado Gunnison precedent, supporter, financial, and board pages plus a ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API capture for EIN 27-4011343.
$30,000 grant to teach news literacy to students.$30,000 over three years plus professional learning, curriculum guidance, advice, and expert support.News Literacy Project Inc, EIN 27-4011343, a Washington, DC 501(c)(3)-coded education nonprofit with NTEE code B80, ruling date 2011-03-01, and latest listed tax period 2025-06-01.$9,461,945, income amount $11,637,431, asset amount $11,240,390, and latest object ID 202523299349300417.2026-04-15. The list includes large institutional and individual donors, but the captured sources do not tie any named donor to the D20 award.2025-09-15 press release confirms that, before the D20 article, the fellowship had expanded to 28 districts across 15 states and 1.1 million students. The bounded News Literacy Project WordPress API searches did not find a first-party 2026 cohort announcement naming D20 or Bellingham.$10,000 each year of the program, that districts may spend it on plan-aligned costs under district finance policies, and that fellows must record spending and share the record with NLP. This explains program-level spending administration but not the D20 award's donor or budget source.| 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-specific award; direct for program model | KKTV article; first-party fellowship pages |
| News Literacy Project donors | News Literacy Project | contributions to nonprofit | money | direct for self-published donor list; unresolved for donor 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 |
2011-03-01: ProPublica's organization record lists the News Literacy Project ruling date.2023: News Literacy Project's retained Gunnison narrative says Gunnison Watershed School District was accepted into the fellowship.2025-03-21: News Literacy Project publishes the Gunnison fellowship story retained in this package.2025-09-15: News Literacy Project announces a larger fellowship cohort, including Chicago Public Schools, in a first-party press release inspected during the pass.2026-04-15: the captured supporter page says the donor list was last updated.2026-04-16: News Literacy Project's District Fellowship page has a captured dateModified value, still before the D20 article and still reflecting the older 28-district / 15-state count.2026-04-29: KKTV reports the D20 fellowship grant.2027-08 to 2030-06: News Literacy Project's application page states this is the run window for Cohort 6, meaning D20's 2026 award likely belongs to an earlier/current cohort if the KKTV report is accurate; the retained first-party pages do not explicitly name that cohort.$30,000 grant.