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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by WHOSE KNOWLEDGE QUESTION MARK.

Totals

Total revenue
$906,137
Total expenses
$1,024,713
Contributions and grants received
$891,137
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$15,000
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$482,524
Total liabilities, end of year
$100
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$482,424
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$732,735
Management and general expenses
$291,978
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$732,735

Program services were 71.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $891,137

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Consulting Services

    total $12,000 · related or exempt $12,000

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Honorariums

    total $3,000 · related or exempt $3,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $94,643 · program services $85,179 · management and general $9,464

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $185 · program services $167 · management and general $18

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $7,485 · program services $6,737 · management and general $748

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,399 · management and general $1,399

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $10,442 · management and general $10,442

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $650,204 · program services $585,184 · management and general $65,020

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,424 · program services $2,424

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $9,733 · program services $9,733

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $35,195 · management and general $35,195

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Research Services

    total $94,671 · program services $1,975 · management and general $92,696

  • 24b · Other expenses: Convening Expense

    total $55,708 · management and general $55,708

  • 24c · Other expenses: Program Partner Services

    total $24,590 · program services $24,590

  • 24d · Other expenses: Fiscal Sponsorship

    total $19,881 · management and general $19,881

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $18,153 · program services $16,746 · management and general $1,407

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $601,000 · end of year $175,630

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $306,894

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    end of year $100

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $601,000 · end of year $482,424

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Whose Knowledge? is a global multilingual campaign to center on the internet the histories, knowledges, leadership, design, and imaginations of the minoritised majority of the world - minoritized and marginalized by historical and ongoing structures of power and privilege. We practice as a feminist anti-oppressions collective striving towards shared liberations through knowledge justice, led by Black and brown women and trans folks from and in the communities and movements we serve, particularly of the Global South and Global Majority.

  • Communications-Challenging Big Knowledge and centering our communities through radical communications work, including publishing our own multimodal resources and reports, sharing our epistemic practices in peer reviewed journals and speaking at critical knowledge (including universities, GLAM organizations, publishers, open knowledge spaces) and technology forums.

    Expenses $214,497

  • Whose Digital Archives-Activities 2022 Expanded Decolonizing the Archives team at Whose Knowledge? Focused strongly on the intersections and innovations of Black Archival Practice and Black Digital Practice. Led conversation about digital challenges with liberatory archives and made meaningful contributions to transnational archives spaces. Continuing to develop and articulate our vision and strategy for archives, and integrating it with other programs.

    Expenses $137,029

  • Decolonizing the Internet-Activities 2022 Along with African Womens Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) we organized Decolonizing The Internet convening of 40 feminists, activists, technologists, artists, scholars, knowledge professionals and digital curators from across the East-African region in Lusaka, Zambia. We held authentic and deeply thoughtful conversations and reflections on decolonizing the internet, leveraging critical feminist scholarship, human rights activism, and knowledge of internet technologies, community organizing, and partnerships ahead of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica 2022). As in previous DTI conferences, we hosted an invite-only convening for our communities before a major public event. This strategy proved to be successful once again, allowing our community to continue the conversations we previously had in a smaller and safe space, in the bigger and mainstream one (FIFAfrica).

    Expenses $115,877 · Revenue $15,000

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Adele Mara Godoy Vrana

    Co-President

    Total calculated
    $94,643
    From this org
    $94,643
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Camille E Acey

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dumisani Ndubane

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Oona Castro

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Karien Bezuidenhout

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Garfield Byrd

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anasuya Sengupta

    Co-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Amanda Menking

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
14 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202303189349306760

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