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Prism Reports

U.S. left / progressive nonprofit

Owned byOperated by Prism Reports, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so there is no corporate parent or individual owner. A board oversees it, and Emma Carew Grovum is the board chair according to search results. It is not the same as 'Prism News,' a separate network of AI-generated local news sites.
FundingPhilanthropic grants and donations. Reported funders include Open Philanthropy, the Women's Foundation of California, and Daily Kos. The MacArthur Foundation lists three grants totaling $700,000 for 2023–2026. Reference sources describe its funders as mostly left-of-center foundations.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

Lara Peng founded Prism in 2018 as a newsroom led by women of color and by people of color more broadly. It covers politics, immigration, racial justice, LGBTQ+ and trans issues, health, and economic inequality. It says it centers the voices of marginalized people, and it is openly an advocacy-oriented outlet, not a neutral wire-style one. It runs as a 501(c)(3) with a board. Its funding comes from philanthropy, including large progressive-leaning foundations, and it has also received money from Daily Kos. In 2026 its Trump-era coverage has included birthright citizenship, Temporary Protected Status cuts, immigrant health-care eligibility, and the State of the Union, usually from the viewpoint of affected communities and advocates, who are critical of the administration. Media Bias/Fact Check and similar raters have assessed it, and it should not be confused with the unrelated 'Prism News' AI-generated local sites that Poynter reported shut down in 2026. I did not find well-documented major corrections or controversies about its accuracy in my searches. Details on its history and its funders come from secondary summaries, so I have not verified them against Prism's own financial filings.

Sources

  1. Prism - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  2. Prism Reports, Inc - MacArthur Foundation
  3. Prism Reports (Prism) - Influence Watch
  4. Prism, a news site led by women of color, centers the voices of marginalized people in its reporting - Nieman Lab
  5. Advocates say the real State of the Union is deepening ... - Prism
  6. More than 200 AI-generated 'local news' sites just went dark - Poynter

Profile compiled 2026-10-31; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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