Nonprofit / endowment funding for journalism
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=180560, an analysis of someone else’s model of endowment support of news (extremely pessimistic).
Some key concepts: few nonprofits/charities of any sort are fully funded by donations/endowments.
Subscriptions are a key.
Free/cheap news is of very poor quality. Expensive sources (like American Banker, nearly $900/year) produce good news.
— Aline
The New Journalism 
My mother always told me that banks have the nicest buildings in town because they have all the money.
John